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Facebook moves 1.5bn users out of reach of new European privacy law
- Teever 8y agoWhat happens if someone is a dual citizen in the US and an EU country but Facebook doesn't (yet) know that?
- detaro 8y agoCitizenship doesn't matter, location does.
- gnode 8y agoResidency is what matters, rather than citizenship. I expect the practise when having multiple data policies will be to ask users which country they live in when they create an account. I doubt you would be able to expect the protections of the GDPR if you falsely claimed you were resident in the US. If this is the case, I wonder if this will lead to many people around the world falsely claiming to be EU residents to get GDPR protections, or claiming to be US residents to use platforms refusing service to the EU on the basis of not complying with the GDPR.
- detaro 8y agoprevious discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16872542 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16872542