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by rmc 9y ago
You probably created your account was with Facebook Ireland Ltd (and I'm sure still are with that entity). So GDPR applies to companies within the EU, i.e. yes.
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by rmc 9y ago
It also applies to companies which are based in the EU. AFAIK everyone outside the USA & Canada has a contract with Facebook Ireland Ltd. If your account is with them, then they have to follow GDPR
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by rmc 9y ago
GDPR applies to companies in the EU, so any EU company will have to apply it to all people/users.
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by rmc 9y ago
GDPR doesn't differentiate by citizenship. However it applies if the company is in the EU (which Facebook Ireland Ltd is , and (AFAIK) all non-USA & non-Canadian citizens have a contract with them), or if the person is in the EU.
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by rmc 9y ago
Just because people on messageboards are posting different things, doesn't mean the law is unclear. GDPR Art 3 is relatively clear that it wouldn't apply just because an EU citizen is in the USA. Once that person is in the EU, the
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by rmc 9y ago
GDPR applies to companies/orgs which are (i) based in the EU, or (ii) process personal data of people who live in the EU (regardless of where the corp/org is). I think lots of EU law applies to residents, rather than citizens of a
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by rmc 9y ago
But that's easy to get into compliance, just adjust a setting from 90 to 30.
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by rmc 9y ago
GDPR can help advocates for privacy within an organisation. Rather than argue with nebulous harm from potential bad PR, you can say "If we don't do this, we risk a fine of $LOTS"
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by rmc 9y ago
> why should he personally participate in Parliament's ritual shaming of Facebook? Because it sends a bad message, and Parliament et al have the ability to materially affect facebook's revenue by passing & enforcing laws
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by rmc 9y ago
EU's data protection law covers this.
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by rmc 9y ago
EU Data Protection Law requires that users are entitled to view all personal data (yes that includes videos) that FB has on them. In May the EU will be able to fine FB up to 4% of global revenue for breeches of this law. Popcorn time!
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by rmc 9y ago
If you use the IPFS companion extension, then your browser does!
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by rmc 9y ago
This headline says it's powered by IPFS, and if the website was hosted there, then the site wouldn't suffer this problem!
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by rmc 9y ago
In Ireland it was MSN Messenger too.
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by rmc 9y ago
GDPR comes in in May. That's the interesting development
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by rmc 9y ago
"wages"? Don't be silly Uber doesn't pay the drivers/pilots wages. That would imply these people were employees!
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by rmc 9y ago
> both of those citations - a right-leaning source[0] and a tabloid, respectively The Daily Mail is a tabloid, and is so bad that it has been banned from being used as source in Wikipedia. https://www.theguardian.com/te
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by rmc 9y ago
When you download map data from Maps.me, it loads them from the maps.me servers. But that's to be expected. openstreetmap.org isn't going to be hosting those files. Maps.me also includes some hotels from booking.com
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by rmc 9y ago
This is where EU's data protection law comes into play. When someone agreed to letting the app look at their phone book, the person isn't giving the app permission to store that forever. In theory, this sort of action should be il
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by rmc 9y ago
"Just look at the GDPR when you get above a certain size" probably won't be so easy. You'll have already committed to lots of things, lots of services, business model(s) etc. It's much much much easier to think abou
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by rmc 9y ago
One requirement of EU data protection law is "informed consent", which must be freely given. Pages of legalese that we all know no-one reads, then you could say it's not informed consent. And you have to be able to revoke
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by rmc 9y ago
There's a good chance that a lot of big US tech companies are going to apply the GDPR to everyone. It'd be too hard for (say) Facebook to have 2 databases.
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by rmc 9y ago
Careful, the EU is a big market. If you exclude the EU, and get big enough, someone can just copy your business, but abide by EU law. Suddenly you have a compeditor who has access to a large market that you don't have access to.
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by rmc 9y ago
Maybe get a different laptop on the desk beside you for your personal stuff?
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by rmc 9y ago
We'll be able to tell how many people did it by how Facebook reacts. If they do basically nothing and carry on as normal, then we know that FB knows that hardly anyone has deleted their accounts. If it looks like FB is shitting bricks,
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by rmc 9y ago
That is not the position of EU law. In EU law, the person owns the data. There are limitations to what you can sign away.
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by rmc 9y ago
Well that notification doesn't say what SomeFacebookApp will do with the information, it implies they won't share it with anyone else. "any other information" is too broad, so it's not clear what that covers.
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by rmc 9y ago
Uber are a totally ethical company who would never do anything as underhanded as that!!! /s
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by rmc 9y ago
There's some better documentation now: https://switch2osm.org/
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by rmc 9y ago
That's fine. If someone is willing to pay you, then they are allowed to tell you what to do. Whether that's "Do this job", or "sit at home watching TV, but don't work for this company "

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