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That ONE person out of 300m in the EU bothered to chase this topic.

• stavros 3y ago
  Yes, I'm asking who this "one person" is. This is being chased by NOYB, an organization of multiple people.
  • zinekeller 3y ago
    Not OP, but Max Schrems (and that's why the decisions related to this are called Schrems, Schrems II et al.). To be fair, he leads NOYB (so it's not just him), but he has a personal interest here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Schrems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Schrems
  • HenryBemis 3y ago
    We don't know the name, the article states that the org is putting itself in front. I am not surprised someone doesn't want to get entangled with Meta and use his/her own resources to fight this beast.
• avgcorrection 3y ago
  It’s a bizzarely opaque statement since the population of the EU is over 400M. (Meanwhile the US population is over 300M.)
  • jacquesm 3y ago
    How many of those are 18 and over?
    • avgcorrection 3y ago
      Oh, really? Even more opaque. You don’t need to be of voting age (??) in order to be an activist or political in some sort of way. I’m pretty sure that Greta Thunberg wasn’t when she became famous.
      • jacquesm 3y ago
        Schrems is so much more than a teenager activist. Anyway, if this thread leaves you frustrated then maybe just don't participate in it? The EU has 100's of millions of people, not all of them are in a position to bring this kind of effort because it requires bringing suit (which children may be able to do but don't generally do) and a very large chunk of a lifetime's worth of dedication. So in an attempt to roughly indicate the order of magnitude of difference between the number of people that could have taken action but didn't I used the 300 million figure. I haven't checked it for accuracy and Greta Thunberg notwithstanding the fact that you bring her up as an example is exactly because such individuals are so rare which is exactly the point that I was making. Without Schrems for privacy and without Thunberg for climate change these subjects would get less attention than they do, and both of them have been instrumental in making meaningful change when in fact both of these subjects should concern the vast majority of that 300 million, give or take.
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• Tainnor 3y ago
  Ultimately, there aren't that many people who have the technical knowledge, the ideology (that the internet should be for the good of the general public, not for corporations), the dedication and the time - and those who do exist are split between multiple issues (e.g. preventing the CSAM bill). In this case, it's specifically that not all DPAs are doing their job correctly: some due to understaffing, others arguably due to ideological reasons. I partially blame the GDPR itself - I still stand behind the spirit of that law, but it's IMHO not strict enough (or has too many loopholes): I think the selling of personal data to third parties should have been banned outright.
• sgbeal 3y ago
  > That ONE person out of 300m in the EU bothered to chase this topic. Meanwhile, others of us in the EU simply delete their FB accounts and don't look back. (Right at 5 years ago, fwiw.)