Facebook’s tracking of non-users ruled illegal again in Europe

Re:Facebook’s tracking of non-users ruled illegal again in E... by kome on Monday March 05, 2018 @04:37AM (#16519864)

> The jurisdiction stuff is disturbing.

That's like saying that democracy is disturbing, but it's the best we have got. FB should respect laws in Belgium, that's it.

I don't trust "governance", I trust "government": because it is only at a national level that we see a bit of democratic accountability.

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Re:Facebook’s tracking of non-users ruled illegal again in E... by dalbasal on Monday March 05, 2018 @04:55AM (#16519946)

I agree, national politics is the only politics we have. But, the internet does not exist within national confines, and I don't want it to.

In this case, I like the courts decision and FB is big enough to deal with it. What about a much smaller service dealing with polish cencorship laws, Turkish political content laws and 12 incompatible eu privacy laws. It can only end in either (a) overall ineffectiveness or (b) internet balkanization.

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Re:Facebook’s tracking of non-users ruled illegal again in E... by ThrustVectoring on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @02:10AM (#16527380)

Should Facebook also respect laws in Thailand and remove content for lese majeste? If I lease out a server in the US for $10/mo to serve my blog, should I?

Facebook following Belgian law isn't the issue; the issue is that jurisdiction questions have to answer a lot of less-palatable questions the same way.

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