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Re:German court rules Facebook use of personal data illegal by TomMarius on Monday February 12, 2018 @04:23PM (#16362335)
Not true, you can leave the website. The website of course has to not track you until you don't leave.
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Re:German court rules Facebook use of personal data illegal by mziel on Monday February 12, 2018 @04:28PM (#16362389)
Again, this is not deemed sufficient by GDPR. According to the law you can't condition the service you're providing on collecting unrelated (to that service) data.
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Re:German court rules Facebook use of personal data illegal by TomMarius on Monday February 12, 2018 @04:36PM (#16362481)
The GDPR doesn't apply to US companies. While the FB has EU offices right now, they're there for convenience only. They can close them next month and stop caring about the EU law.
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Re:German court rules Facebook use of personal data illegal by mziel on Monday February 12, 2018 @04:40PM (#16362519)
| they're there for convenience only. They can close them next month

Citation needed? Facebook gets revenue from their ad network, which is used by European business customers and targets European users. Therefore they need to comply with European law.

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