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Facebook should adopt stringent EU data protection rules as a global "baseline" for all of the social network's services, consumer activists say in an open letter that contends the rules will help ensure the company is accountable and transparent.
The Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue, a coalition of US and European consumer groups, called on CEO Mark Zuckerberg to adopt the EU's General Data Protection Regulation to govern his company's platform. The sweeping regulation, known by the abbreviation GDPR, gives Europeans more control over their personal data and compels companies to notify consumers of data breaches within 72 hours. It also expands the types of information that are considered personal data.
"The GDPR provides a solid foundation for data protection, establishing clear responsibilities for companies that collect personal data and clear rights for users whose data is gathered," TCD said in its letter. "These are protections that all users should be entitled to no matter where they are located."
[...] In its letter, the Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue suggested the GDPR represents the gold standard in data protection, telling Zuckerberg that "there is simply no reason for your company to provide less than the best legal standards currently available to protect the privacy of Facebook users."
It urged Zuckerberg to express his commitment "to global compliance with GDPR and provide specific details on how the company plans to implement these changes" in his Congressional testimony.
[...] Facebook declined to comment for this story, but executives have previously commented on GDPR and similar subjects.
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @11:07AM (40 children)
Zuckerberg is providing a service in which people participate willingly.
Bureaucrats are putting guns to people's heads and saying "Do what I say, or I'll have you thrown into a cage."
I know which is the lesser evil.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @11:29AM (26 children)
Nobody believes this.
The time for regulation has arrived. All monopolies must be smashed to bits.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @11:51AM (12 children)
What is there not to believe? Your response is entirely emotional.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday April 10 2018, @02:44PM (11 children)
And, yours is entirely mercenary.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @04:19PM (10 children)
So, you'll have to explain yourself.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @05:53PM (5 children)
Why should anyone explain anything to you at this point? You bury your head in the sand and just spew "violently imposed monopoly!" over and over. You are a blight upon all discussions.
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @07:42PM (4 children)
I'm still waiting for a valid argument.
So much for your so-called "discussion".
I guess "a blight upon" means "an independent thinker in".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @08:33PM (3 children)
You poor tortured soul
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday April 11 2018, @05:03AM (2 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 11 2018, @10:47PM (1 child)
You always turn up in these threads, I can only presume you're one of the ACs pushing the "gubmint is evil monopoly based on guuuns" and "taxes are theeeeft!"
Nice to see it only took you a few years to co-opt the "projecting" argument, although it seems it might be another year before you understand how to use it. You were close, but it is more nuanced than "I know you are but what am I?"
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday April 12 2018, @03:47AM
And I can only presume that stupidity is what is torturing your soul.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday April 11 2018, @01:10AM (3 children)
It seems pretty obvious. If you're defending a corporation for exploiting millions of people, then your only interest is money. Mercenary.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday April 11 2018, @05:05AM (2 children)
And the reasoning behind that is? Seems a lot like the foible of attributing the worst to someone because of lack of imagination. And what does such alleged interest in money mean?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 11 2018, @10:50PM (1 child)
It means you are a craven whore to the capitalist ideology who will march humanity into oblivion because environmentalists are hippy nutjobs.
I'll file this under "More evidence khallow is an AI experiment to allow mass astro-turfing."
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday April 12 2018, @03:48AM
And yet, money doesn't enter into this elaborate yarn diagram.
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @12:00PM (10 children)
Indeed, a government is the worst kind of monopoly: It is one that grew not from providing a voluntary service, but rather from violent imposition.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @03:04PM (9 children)
Idiots are the worst kind of trolls. They think they are correct and force their views upon people through incessant spamming.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @04:04PM (8 children)
Your lack of agreement does not make it spam.
If anything, your particular brand of non-reply is spam.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @07:33PM (7 children)
You are correct, my agreement or lack thereof has no bearing upon your posts. The repetition and off-topic nature of your posts definitely is salient to my previous point. Your lack of vision seems directly tied to the amount of sand piled up around your eyeballs.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @07:43PM (6 children)
Someone says "smash all monopolies."
Someone else replies "The government is a monopoly; shall we smash it?"
That seems horrifically on topic.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @08:38PM (5 children)
Sure this time it was relatively on-topic except for the continuous fact that you have no viable solutions to replace government. Your propositions are lame and rely on humanity being perfectly sane and logical actors. Grow up kid.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @08:58PM (1 child)
Should ALL monopolies be smashed to bits, or is government some magical exception?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @09:37PM
You fail basic reasoning yet again.
There is no monopoly on government. Individual cities/counties/states create their own laws, and sometimes they go against the federal government. Don't like your government? Move to another city/state. Don't like the US federal government? Move to another country.
Let me get a seat further up the bleachers, when your brain explodes from too many mental gymnastics I don't want to be contaminated.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday April 11 2018, @05:13AM (2 children)
The original quote did not make that distinction instead saying all monopolies - not just the ones that are viable - should be smashed. It's fine to be concerned that a simplistic one-size-fits-all approach probably is not viable. It's not so fine to be selectively concerned and only express that concern towards criticism of the original flawed post.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 11 2018, @06:31AM (1 child)
Whatever you say boss. Yessir that khallow is one mean boss, don't wanna cross that man, uh uhhh.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday April 11 2018, @01:49PM
Read the thread.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @09:16PM (1 child)
Yup.
The U.S has proven that unchecked capitalism is greedy to no limit, it will never self-regulate. The 'free market' is a myth.
Zuck will self-regulate facebook about the same time he will admit to stealing the idea for the company.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 11 2018, @10:31AM
Aren't we fortunate that the sociopathic dregs of the corporate world stay out of the organization that has a monopoly on violence, Government.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @12:08PM
You may indeed believe you know.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday April 10 2018, @12:16PM (11 children)
And consumer groups agree. Like in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @12:18PM (10 children)
Might doesn't make right. Your lack of principles is showing.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday April 10 2018, @12:29PM (9 children)
I'm glad you noticed my lack of your principles.
Nothing is more abhorrent to me than to replace my life with a set of principles. Chances are, you'll reach this conclusion too after a while.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @01:24PM (8 children)
I don't know what you mean by "replace my life with a set of principles".
(Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Tuesday April 10 2018, @02:01PM (7 children)
You'll have time to learn, no worries.
Anything the human intelligence is able to hold are representations/models of the reality, an approximation of it, reductionist by their very nature.
As such, each of them will have limited range of applicability - step out of these bounds and any decision you take based on those models will come back to bite you. To make a "car analogy", think how useful the "car analogies" are - probably good enough to get your message across to someone, but try to stretch them and the only good thing you extract by using them are the lols.
Particularly harmful are the principles - they offer such a tempting simplicity to everything! But... for every complex problem, there is a solution that is clear, simple, and wrong. In that solution you'll very likely find a blind application of principles.
Think in your vanity that you know everything and think that everything can and must be governed by principles and it will not be you to live your life, but those principles will live it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @02:10PM (6 children)
Good day, sir.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @03:07PM (4 children)
I sense a stubborn horse. Oh well it is his thirst to deal with.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @04:07PM (3 children)
Drink at your own peril.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @05:56PM (2 children)
I just imagine a 15 year old "gifted" student bored with school work and who thinks they've solved the world's problems with some very basic principles. "Why has no one else thought of this?" thinks the teen. Stuck in a small world view and lacking education this teen marches on a crusade to bring light to the darkness.
I hope your mid-life crisis doesn't fracture your psyche.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @07:46PM (1 child)
It doesn't look like one.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @09:40PM
Just idle speculation since any real effort outlining a good argument is just wasted on you.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday April 10 2018, @10:14PM
I'm not arguing, just answering your direct question.
Not everything in life is about debating. There's no race to win, cool down.
A good day to you too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford