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Re:WhatsApp told to stop sharing user data with Facebook by ... by tomcooks on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @02:29PM (#15963304)
The cookie popup is terrible, I agree.

Some pros: Being able to force social networks to provide me with a physical copy of my data is alone a reason to get an EU citizenship. I don't even use the social networks, i just demand my data every 3 months to FB, Tinder and Linkedin to punish them for being so aggressive in their spamming and tracking.

Being safe from throttling, censorship and all the nice stuff that US ISPs are going to feed american citizens with is also pretty nice.

Also very efficiently getting my money back when companies try to scam me.

Re:WhatsApp told to stop sharing user data with Facebook by ... by tomcooks on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @02:32PM (#15963339)
Ah also no roaming across countries and having aligned ALL phone producers on the micro USB phone charger standard have been really nice news
Re:WhatsApp told to stop sharing user data with Facebook by ... by wlesieutre on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @02:47PM (#15963517)
Is that slowing the uptake of USB-C with its standardized Power Delivery fast charging?

What does Google ship with Pixels? The same USB-C fast charger and USB-C cable, then toss in a micro-USB to USB-C adapter for regulatory compliance?

Re:WhatsApp told to stop sharing user data with Facebook by ... by K0SM0S on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @05:05PM (#15964833)
My Nexus 6P (France, Dec. 2015) came with

1) USB-C fast charger

2) USB-C cable

3) USB-C to USB-A cable

No adapter whatsoever. I assume it's the exact same as anywhere in the world. Therefore it seems USB-C is considered an acceptable next standard for phone charging in the EU.

On a side-related note, I wonder why Apple was never subjected to charging standards in the EU.

Re:WhatsApp told to stop sharing user data with Facebook by ... by desas on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @05:16PM (#15964934)
It was voluntary. The EU said sort this out or we will make a standard and require it. I think iPhones did come with an adapter for the standard charger at some point.
Re:WhatsApp told to stop sharing user data with Facebook by ... by Rondom on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @06:28PM (#15974867)
IIRC they threatened to regulate and then manufacturers "voluntarily" agreed to use Micro-USB.
Re:WhatsApp told to stop sharing user data with Facebook by ... by ClassyJacket on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @04:12PM (#15964313)
Samsung includes the micro-USB to USB-C adapter. Not sure about Google.
Re:WhatsApp told to stop sharing user data with Facebook by ... by rconti on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @03:52PM (#15964142)
I'm an EU citizen and was not aware of this "demand for data" thing. What does physical copy mean? Are they going to send me 20 boxes full of papers?
Re:WhatsApp told to stop sharing user data with Facebook by ... by rmc on Friday December 22, 2017 @05:22AM (#15986448)
You are allowed to get a request of all personal data that someone/some company has one you. So you can contact Facebook and say "Please give me a copy of all the data you hold on me" and they have to give it to you. When Max Schrems did they first, Facebook did send a CD with a ~1,000 page PDF "print out". It garnered some media attention since it shows how much they do collect on people./

The maximum they can charge is set in law and is about €5.

More details for Facebook here: http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Get_your_Data_/get_your_data...

Re:WhatsApp told to stop sharing user data with Facebook by ... by tscs37 on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @04:19PM (#15964383)
The GDPR specifically addresses only a copy of your data in a widely used digital format.

I believe in Germany you can have someone send all your private data once a year in physical copy and you only need to pay for undue transport costs.

Re:WhatsApp told to stop sharing user data with Facebook by ... by vilmosi on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @04:07PM (#15964265)
Not physical paper, but you can download all the data they have on you at any time if you want.
Re:WhatsApp told to stop sharing user data with Facebook by ... by bousaid on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @07:36PM (#15965923)
Wow. What sort of data do they send?
Re:WhatsApp told to stop sharing user data with Facebook by ... by omnimus on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @04:11AM (#15968131)
This varies in strange ways. I dont know how facebook does this and if i could get more but i have seen facebook datasets from three people including mine.

Usualy it is all photos and vids yove uploaded, comments etc.

Mine was most complete. Including some sort of keywords tags i am interested in. Not things i followed but what fb thinks i like.

Other datasets did not include this but one included all the times someone connected to the account including IP and location.

Re:WhatsApp told to stop sharing user data with Facebook by ... by SaturateDK on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @06:41AM (#15968762)
You can do this with phone companies in Denmark, and you'll get your location history. As they are required to keep that.