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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, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @11:44AM (2 children)
He is cause of this problem by turning of privacy settings over the years and forcing all to opt out only.
Right now
1) set all privacy setting show be set on period. Proves that Facebook heard
2) minimum standard of all data is tightest if all countries. This way programmers cannot claim “oh that code is for US only.
3) stop collecting info from the Facebook web-bug. Ie: all the Facebook icons other companies sites.
4) all companies that show that icon are also responsible (money) for helping Facebook to spy on us all.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by HiThere on Tuesday April 10 2018, @06:10PM (1 child)
Zuckerberg was the original source of the problem, but now it's systematic in the company. I really doubt that Zuckerberg has any intention of trying to fix it, but even if he did at this point in time he'd be fighting against the design and tradition of the company. So even if he were to honestly reform, I doubt if he could fix the problems with Facebook. That would require a major structural change, including alternate funding sources.
Better would be to kill off the company. Now how to do that is a major problem. Most people aren't even aware of the problems it's causing, and the only real way to kill Facebook, rather than just rename it, is to get those people to use something less harmful. Good luck. I expect that Facebook will soon die, but that is most likely to be because of an even more intrusive replacement.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 11 2018, @06:47AM
gave a suggestion on how to end Facebook. She just didn't have the manpower for her own crusade, or the sense to rile enough fellow abused souls to storm the Alamo(youtube) and purge America's True Patriots once and for all :) Facebook deserves the same treatment or worse. I mean after all, do you try and kill the individual cells of the cancer, at the risk of one escaping? Or do you purge the whole area in fire, scapel and toxic chemicals and ensure that nothing malign can grow back there ever again?
We can review our options again when the legal equivalent of immuno-therapy arrives in the legal and political realm. Until then, purge it hard and to hell with the consequences.