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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday April 10 2018, @10:59AM   Printer-friendly
from the should-be-committed dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday April 10 2018, @12:16PM (11 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 10 2018, @12:16PM (#664908) Journal

    Bureaucrats are putting guns to people's heads...

    And consumer groups agree. Like in:

    The Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue, a coalition of US and European consumer groups,

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @12:18PM (10 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @12:18PM (#664909)

    Might doesn't make right. Your lack of principles is showing.

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday April 10 2018, @12:29PM (9 children)

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 10 2018, @12:29PM (#664915) Journal

      Your lack of principles is showing.

      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.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @01:24PM (8 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @01:24PM (#664928)

        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)

          by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 10 2018, @02:01PM (#664939) Journal

          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.

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          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @02:10PM (6 children)

            by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @02:10PM (#664941)

            Good day, sir.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @03:07PM (4 children)

              by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @03:07PM (#664974)

              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)

                by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @04:07PM (#664997)

                Drink at your own peril.

                • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @05:56PM (2 children)

                  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @05:56PM (#665038)

                  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)

                    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @07:46PM (#665077)

                    It doesn't look like one.

                    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @09:40PM

                      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @09:40PM (#665111)

                      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

              by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 10 2018, @10:14PM (#665123) Journal

              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.

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