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GDPR can't come too soon. That would definitely put an end to these shady practices, as the penalties of several individual infractions would endanger any compa
by sveme 9y ago
GDPR can't come too soon. That would definitely put an end to these shady practices, as the penalties of several individual infractions would endanger any company.
- Oras 9y agoand how many people are aware of it and will write to companies like FB asking for their data?
- sveme 9y agoThat's not how GDPR works.
- camillomiller 9y agoIt will offer a possibile solution in Europe, where Facebook has already been under heavy scrutiny. It won't change anything in the US, South America, SE Asia and developing countries where Facebook is already dangerously synonimical to the whole online experience of the average user.
- sveme 9y agoThe hope is that Facebook will not have two different data handling strategies for EU and non-EU users and we'll see some sort of regulatory encroachment from the EU to the rest of the world. But obviously GDPR endangers so many of Facebook's shady but lucrative practices that they will have financial incentives to set up two different user silos.
- kazen44 9y agoI wonder if other countries also start making laws like the GDPR? The EU is creating a frameworks which makes it very easy for other countries to "attach" on too. The only danger is not having enough leverage to "prevent" companies from leaving and not adhering to privacy standards, but by cooperating this should be possible?
- Chaebixi 9y ago> The hope is that Facebook will not have two different data handling strategies for EU and non-EU users and we'll see some sort of regulatory encroachment from the EU to the rest of the world. But obviously GDPR endangers so many of Facebook's shady but lucrative practices that they will have financial incentives to set up two different user silos. Facebook might be one of the few organizations with the motivation and ability to set up two different regimes to contain the effects of GDPR on their practices. In that case, I would love to know what their selection criteria is.
- kardos 9y ago> developing countries where Facebook is already dangerously synonimical to the whole online experience of the average user. Was that not the case with AOL in the US in decades past?
- wruwew8uu9 9y agoEven if they complied with your erasure request and deleted everything from all their servers and their backups (spanning the world over a decade), think of all the non-EU third-parties who have your FB data already
- sveme 9y agoGDPR isn't only about data deletion, but also about the transparency of data handling strategies. There was a "nightmare GDPR" letter HN post a couple of days ago that illustrates some of those responsibilities.
- robterrell 9y agoI wonder if GDPR could be applied to companies I don't have a relationship with but have my data (i.e. CA-type data collection companies)?
- sveme 9y agoSure. That's already possible in Germany, where any company has to provide you with the details of their knowledge about you once a year for free: https://selbstauskunft.net/ https://selbstauskunft.net/
- e12e 9y agoThe GDPR basically states that a company have a relashionship with you if they have data about you.
- tomaskafka 9y agoNo it won't. > [] I want to see dancing monkeys and for that, I agree to have all my data shared with unnamed third and fourth parties indefinitely. See? Everyone clicked that :).
- sveme 9y agoUnder GDPR you cannot mix these two things. They cannot force you to accept conditions that are not relevant to the requested item - if you do not accept the opt-in, they are still not allowed to refuse your access to the monkey video, as there is no meaningful connection between said video and all of your data. It would be different if you had to pay for something, in which case you would have to agree to share your name, credit card etc. However, they still would not be allowed to share it with unrelated (!) third parties.