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It would be absurd for Facebook, a US company, to adopt as a global standard a framework that's entirely decided and enforced by the EU. Perhaps a global data
by pdog 9y ago
It would be absurd for Facebook, a US company, to adopt as a global standard a framework that's entirely decided and enforced by the EU.
Perhaps a global data protection framework can largely conform to GDPR, but it clearly has to be decided in the US.
- izacus 9y agoIt's as absurd as Google/Facebook/et al. adopting US cultural norms as global standard of banning ads, YouTube content, social media content and everything else for the whole world. Meaning: not absurd at all.
- JD557 9y agoWhile I don't agree with some of Google/Facebook/et al. standards, I think that's not a fair comparison, since they are US based companies following US cultural norms, not EU based companies following US cultural norms.
- desas 9y agoFacebook and Google have many subsidiary companies based in the EU
- monocasa 9y agoAt not just little subsidiaries either. Up until very recently, all ad revenue was going through their Irish subsidiary.
- ggregoire 9y agoPrivacy and individual protection against big companies are EU cultural norms? Glad to be an EU citizen then.
- maaaats 9y agoHuh, thought they all were Irish companies.
- lucideer 9y agoThey may be founded in the US, and primarily headquartered there, but the large sprawling EU headquarters of the same companies do apply US cultural norms locally. I don't see the unfairness in the comparison.
- jen20 9y agoGoogle and Facebook both have significant European and Asian businesses (complete with offices stuffed full of engineers, marketing and management), so calling them US companies is wrong: they are _global_ companies which happen to be headquartered in the US.
- jug 9y agoIt would be absurd if they could be _forced_ to globally adopt an EU regulation, but I think not as much if they _do_ globally adopt this EU regulation, for two reasons: 1. There might be significant internal hassle involved in working with more than one standard of integrity within a single company dealing with integrity as its currency and user base as pillars. It may be easier for them to just use a common one even if it is more restrictive, at least if it is backed by a population of 500 million people. 2. Facebook are going through a PR crisis and need to dig out of that hole somehow. If they only adopt EU regulations in the EU, it could be seen as Facebook are only doing the least they can to protect the integrity of their users and that this is seen as a better move? It's funny how GDPR coincides with the Facebook scandals as of late, though... Their lawyers and engineers have got to be buried with work. I can't even begin to imagine what a company of Facebook's scale and business model need to do to support GDPR globally.
- M_Bakhtiari 9y ago>It's funny how GDPR coincides with the Facebook scandals The GDPR has been on the table since 2012. That's a very loose coincidence.
- pySSK 9y agoIt’s not that absurd. In the automotive industry, California emissions and efficiency standards become the defacto standards in the US mainly because it wouldn’t make economic sense to maintain a California model and a more polluting model. Also, better fuel efficiency is generally seen as a good thing by consumers. EU has a population of 510m. FB is blemished by privacy concerns. If Facebook makes a GDPR compliant version – it wouldn’t be unreasonable of them to roll that same version out to the rest of the world.