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Obviously the EU is a force against that, standardizing regulations across the whole EU. Facebook is changing how it relates to UK users because they have left

Obviously the EU is a force against that, standardizing regulations across the whole EU. Facebook is changing how it relates to UK users because they have left the EU, of course. At the moment there aren't really any significant contradictory laws/regulations I am aware of. Facebook could just choose to treat everyone as if they were protected by EU laws, but they choose not to. They didn't have to change how they relate to UK users, but they legally could and they chose to.

Fl8ixIDN 6y ago
I don’t think this is correct. EU is pretty strong in favour of data localisation, UK is not. Moving customers to California doesn’t mean they are no longer under UK privacy rules, which of course are identical to EU privacy rules (for the foreseeable future, could change of course).
- avianlyric 6y ago
  While I agree with the theory of what your saying, I'm not so sure it matches the reality. If it did, then why is Facebook moving the data? There would be no benefit. Also it's currently not clear that it's actually legal to move EU citizen data to the US, because the EU doesn't thing the US has strong enough privacy protections. I know that EU citizen data is in the US, and people keep coming up with clever legal structures to make it legal. But those structures keep getting ruled illegal by EU courts.
  - rock_hard 6y ago
    Because they don't own a datacenter in the UK and it probably doesn't make sense to open one for a country that small So the next best option is to move it to the US based data centers
- M2Ys4U 6y ago
  It's not about localisation of data, it's about localisation of control of those data.
julienb_sea 6y ago
The EU has been one of the strongest pressure points towards forcing the rest of the world to acquiesce to EU specific requirements or leave. As such, the EU is at the forefront of balkanization of the internet.

Fl8ixIDN 6y ago

I don’t think this is correct. EU is pretty strong in favour of data localisation, UK is not. Moving customers to California doesn’t mean they are no longer under UK privacy rules, which of course are identical to EU privacy rules (for the foreseeable future, could change of course).

avianlyric 6y ago
While I agree with the theory of what your saying, I'm not so sure it matches the reality. If it did, then why is Facebook moving the data? There would be no benefit. Also it's currently not clear that it's actually legal to move EU citizen data to the US, because the EU doesn't thing the US has strong enough privacy protections. I know that EU citizen data is in the US, and people keep coming up with clever legal structures to make it legal. But those structures keep getting ruled illegal by EU courts.
- rock_hard 6y ago
  Because they don't own a datacenter in the UK and it probably doesn't make sense to open one for a country that small So the next best option is to move it to the US based data centers
M2Ys4U 6y ago
It's not about localisation of data, it's about localisation of control of those data.

julienb_sea 6y ago

The EU has been one of the strongest pressure points towards forcing the rest of the world to acquiesce to EU specific requirements or leave. As such, the EU is at the forefront of balkanization of the internet.