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It is illegal as per the GDPR. The problem is that GDPR enforcement is severely lacking, even in Facebook's case where there is plenty of evidence of bad faith
by Nextgrid 3y ago
It is illegal as per the GDPR.
The problem is that GDPR enforcement is severely lacking, even in Facebook's case where there is plenty of evidence of bad faith as opposed to legitimate mistakes.
(please don't bother posting that "enforcement tracker" link - what matters is not the absolute count/amount of fines but said metrics relative to the total amount of breaches and/or estimated profit earned from them)
- jqpabc123 3y agoIt is illegal as per the GDPR. Then they should simply tell Meta. There should be no need to debate or dance around privacy paywalls. But they obviously haven't done this.
- Nextgrid 3y agoGDPR enforcement is flawed. The regulator (Irish DPC) that has the power to do so is incompetent and/or corrupt (they have prior history of being "nice" to Meta despite sufficient evidence of bad faith). This escalation to the EPDB is yet another attempt to get the Irish DPC to do what they were supposed to do in the first place. There is little political will to fix this however, and data protection regulators are generally useless in every country (maybe not to the level of the DPC, but still). Here's a breakdown of EU-wide cases showing that over 50% of them are stuck for 2+ years: https://noyb.eu/en/project/dpa https://noyb.eu/en/project/dpa
- logifail 3y ago>> It is illegal as per the GDPR. > Then they should simply tell Meta Umm, who's the they in this? Call me naive, but I'd assumed corporations were expected to comply with applicable laws without having to be told to.