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“Facebook is quietly changing its terms of service to shift 1.5 billion users away from Europe to the US while continuing to claim it wants to offer greater privacy protections.
The change covers 70 per cent of its users – based in Africa, Asia, Australasia and Latin/South America – and effectively removes legal protections over personal data that the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will provide from May 25.
Earlier this week, Facebook outlined new privacy settings to bring it in line with the GDPR, insisting that the new law "was an opportunity to invest even more heavily in privacy" and that it was going to go "beyond our obligations to build new and improved privacy experiences for everyone on Facebook."
It strongly implied that it would offer GDPR protections to everyone, penning a blog post this week titled: "Complying With New Privacy Laws and Offering New Privacy Protections to Everyone, No Matter Where You Live."
But that turned out to be yet another Facebook half-truth with the company going to enormous lengths to stop people from cutting it off from the valuable personal data that it packages and sells to third-parties, and which accounts for the bulk of its revenues.”
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/19/facebook_shifts_users/
Awesome ain’t it, how li’l Zuck values privacy?
The change covers 70 per cent of its users – based in Africa, Asia, Australasia and Latin/South America – and effectively removes legal protections over personal data that the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will provide from May 25.
Earlier this week, Facebook outlined new privacy settings to bring it in line with the GDPR, insisting that the new law "was an opportunity to invest even more heavily in privacy" and that it was going to go "beyond our obligations to build new and improved privacy experiences for everyone on Facebook."
It strongly implied that it would offer GDPR protections to everyone, penning a blog post this week titled: "Complying With New Privacy Laws and Offering New Privacy Protections to Everyone, No Matter Where You Live."
But that turned out to be yet another Facebook half-truth with the company going to enormous lengths to stop people from cutting it off from the valuable personal data that it packages and sells to third-parties, and which accounts for the bulk of its revenues.”
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/19/facebook_shifts_users/
Awesome ain’t it, how li’l Zuck values privacy?
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