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How does Facebook determine if a user resides in the EU? Based on the location that they give Facebook? Based on their IP address? Phone number?
by furyg3 9y ago
How does Facebook determine if a user resides in the EU? Based on the location that they give Facebook? Based on their IP address? Phone number?
- apexalpha 9y ago99% of people give FB their location. Perhaps as just if (EU IP | EU LANGUAGE | EU PHONE NUMBER | EU LOCATION SET) == EU. Just to be safe for a massive 4% of global REVENUE fine.
- stordoff 9y agoNot sure if you could use language, as that would include English and Spanish, which I presume would make up a large percentage of their non-EU users (unless people are reliably set to the regional variants of those languages?).
- furyg3 9y agoYeah my question is not does facebook know your location (they do), but what criteria are used to determine if you are under the legal regime of the GDPR. If it's just the location you set, I would advise my non-EU friends to set their location to somewhere in the EU.
- rmc 9y agoFacebook has oodles of data on a massive percentage of their users. They have GPS data from the facebook app, from metadata in photos that are uploaded.