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Re:Facebook spamming users via their 2FA phone numbers by gt_ on Thursday February 15, 2018 @01:43AM (#16382332)
I like the example here. I want to outwardly acknowledge the obvious force that is preventing the baker from putting drugs in their recipe: government regulation and law enforcement.

I am an American but I am well accustomed to learning that other countries are able to prevent certain consumer abuse before it replicates at massive scale by acting early and adjusting along the way.

Does this happen in Europe?

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Re:Facebook spamming users via their 2FA phone numbers by Normal_gaussian on Thursday February 15, 2018 @02:43AM (#16382462)
We're just introducing the GDPR Europe wide which iterates on the member states existing privacy laws to provide definitive rights to any human in Europe, and obligations to any company dealing with their information.

Abusing the 2FA number is likely illegal in most member states now, and is definitely so at the end of May.

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Re:Facebook spamming users via their 2FA phone numbers by cja on Friday February 16, 2018 @03:26AM (#16390784)
Probably you mean EU when you say Europe
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Re:Facebook spamming users via their 2FA phone numbers by Normal_gaussian on Saturday February 24, 2018 @05:37AM (#16452670)
Absolutely, sorry- bad habit
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