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I see absolutely no reason they would keep the same policy for regions that don't require it.
by jjeaff 7y ago
I see absolutely no reason they would keep the same policy for regions that don't require it.
- icebraining 7y agoIn fact, we're seeing that now with Facebook: every user outside the US/Canada was technically a user of Facebook Ireland, and when the GDPR came into effect, they all got GDPR rights (EU companies have to comply with the GDPR for all users, not just EU users). Facebook's response was to move everyone except EU users off Facebook Ireland ASAP.
- deadbunny 7y agoBecause maintaining maintaining multiple codebases is inefficient.
- JensRex 7y agoBecause making money off your data is their whole business model, they're very motivated to lose as little of it as possible.
- mgkimsal 7y agothey have dozens/hundreds of systems in different languages run by different teams. nothing was gdpr compliant 2 years ago. there's been a cost to move to that compliance. changing systems you don't have to is also inefficient. you'd need to weigh the delta between the inefficiencies, assuming that 'efficiency' was the primary goal in the first place.
- jjeaff 7y agoDeleting data would not a separate codebase. It would literally be a few different functions that only get called if the country is in the EU. Do you think they run a separate codebase for google.co.uk and google.fr ?