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There’s no way to sugarcoat this message: Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg believes North America users of his platform deserve a lower data protection standard than people everywhere else in the world.
In a phone interview with Reuters yesterday Mark Zuckerberg declined to commit to universally implementing changes to the platform that are necessary to comply with the European Union's incoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Rather, he said the company was working on a version of the law that would bring some European privacy guarantees worldwide — declining to specify to the reporter which parts of the law would not extend worldwide.
"We're still nailing down details on this, but it should directionally be, in spirit, the whole thing," Reuters quotes Zuckerberg on the GDPR question.
This is a subtle shift of line. Facebook's leadership has previously implied the product changes it's making to comply with GDPR's incoming data protection standard would be extended globally.
[...] On the speculation front, consent under GDPR for processing personal data means offering individuals "genuine choice and control", as the UK's data watchdog explains it. So perhaps Facebook isn't comfortable about giving North American users that kind of autonomy to revoke specific consents at will.
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/04/facebook-gdpr-wont-be-universal/
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday April 05 2018, @11:52PM
Well, if by many you mean many European cultures, or, as it was known until early modern times, Christendom.
That would be the people who decided "the Jews" murdered that nice Mr. Christ.
They also had laws against loaning each other money and charging interest, making Jews the only people who could profit from banking which has always been hugely profitable.
Curiously the various massacres and expulsions of Jews from various European countries during those times tended to coincide with the local ruler being unable to pay whatever massive loan he had with a Jewish banking house.
You should read some history. It might give you some context for your racism.