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It's too easy for this information to get out. There's basically no penalty, you just use as you want and year's late facebook cuts you off? So you start a new
by NotSammyHagar 9y ago
It's too easy for this information to get out. There's basically no penalty, you just use as you want and year's late facebook cuts you off? So you start a new company, owned by a new llc, get the lawyers to sign the 'i am not evil' doc and repeat.
There's no way this will have any impact until there are criminal citations on the people involved. In this case, because it's the us, there's not going to be anything criminal. Facebook, you need to sue companies that do this into oblivion. You are rich and can stand up.
In europe, there's gdpr, the us has no defense. Remember, the chinese and russian govts (probably) were the ones that hacked the company that had all the security clearance applications. Basically, everyone but average americans have access to us govt employee's private information. There must be some blackmailing going on.
- NotSammyHagar 9y agoI'm getting downvoted why? Isn't it true that's it is too easy to do this? The us govt wasn't hacked? see https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/federal-eye/wp/2015/07/09/hack-of-security-clearance-system-affected-21-5-million-people-federal-authorities-say/?utm_term=.ba70af3c02ac https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/federal-eye/wp/2015/07/0....
- NotSammyHagar 9y agoNow my downvote question is getting downvoted. It's very meta. Let's see if my downvote downvote question get's downvoted.
- roywiggins 9y agoPosts on "why is this down voted" always get downvoted, mostly because they're unanswerable and not germane to the actual topic under discussion. It's also against the guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- noobermin 9y agoI don't know if it really is in fb's best interest to sue them. It might in fact be in their interest to allow the players to come back because that would benefit their bottom line.
- NotSammyHagar 9y agoEventually fb will suffer enough about this kind of stuff that it will hurt their rep. I hope.
- ams6110 9y agoHere's the thing. When you give your data to Facebook or anybody else you no longer control it. Laws, policies, user agreements, none of that really matters. You don't control your data once it is no longer in your possession.
- jimsmart 9y agoGDPR will most certainly reach into US businesses as well as EU businesses. Any business collecting data on EU users will be subject to the GDPR. https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2017/12/04/yes-the-gdpr-will-affect-your-u-s-based-business/#7b96de266ff2 https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2017/12/04/ye... Though as the article points out: "There are still questions about how the EU will enforce these actions against U.S. and other multinational companies [...]"
- bklaasen 9y agoEuropean companies that exchange PII with US-based companies in order to provide features to their customers and value to themselves are terminating those contracts and turning to EU-based companies. Even though many US-based companies are attempting to comply with GDPR, European companies which use their services aren't prepared to take the risk of being in breach of GDPR.
- jimnotgym 9y agoOr US business are making a big show that the data is hosted within the EU in order to retain the business. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/TrustCenter/Privacy/gdpr/default.aspx https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/TrustCenter/Privacy/gdpr/def... https://thestack.com/cloud/2017/12/19/aws-opens-new-region-in-paris-to-widen-reach/ https://thestack.com/cloud/2017/12/19/aws-opens-new-region-i...