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Re:Belgium Tells Facebook to Stop Storing Personal Data from... by craftyguy on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @08:38PM (#16644192)
Belgium would still need a way to enforce it, and unless they build their own Great Firewall, they cannot physically prevent FB from doing business in their country, nor could they collect fines from them. The best they could do would be to petition the EU and/or the US to do something about it.
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Re:Belgium Tells Facebook to Stop Storing Personal Data from... by John_KZ on Thursday March 22, 2018 @11:44AM (#16649584)
They can just ask their ISPs to remove facebook.com from their DNS. That'll remove 80% of the users. If that doesn't work, they'll just have to ask their ISPs to block traffic to facebook and their associated IPs. It's not like they can't just install DPI equipment.
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Re:Belgium Tells Facebook to Stop Storing Personal Data from... by PeterStuer on Thursday March 22, 2018 @05:14PM (#16652757)
Wel, they could, but ISP's (as well as regulators btw) are fairly reluctant to block 'popular' services. Companies generally use the legal system to fight back. They don't go around just ignoring laws when caught or scoff at verdicts. Facebook has already said they will comply but appeal.
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Re:Belgium Tells Facebook to Stop Storing Personal Data from... by bognition on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @10:10PM (#16644969)
These are some pretty tall assertions, what evidence is there that Belgium lacks the legal tools to enforce this?
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Re:Belgium Tells Facebook to Stop Storing Personal Data from... by craftyguy on Thursday March 22, 2018 @12:40AM (#16645800)
That they didn't?
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Re:Belgium Tells Facebook to Stop Storing Personal Data from... by chopin on Thursday March 22, 2018 @09:18AM (#16648342)
they could go after advertizers doing business in Belgium. They could go after their payment processor. They could involve EU authorities.
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