Facebook CEO says no plans to extend all of GDPR globally

Re:Facebook CEO says no plans to extend all of GDPR globally by nugget on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @10:44PM (#16751468)

Facebook's fear isn't privacy requests made directly by individuals (likely a tiny number), but rather privacy requests made programmatically, on behalf of users, by third party services who can use clever marketing and growth hacks to scale quickly. There are some interpretations of GDPR that would allow this broadly and it could create some meaningful competitive scenarios.

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Re:Facebook CEO says no plans to extend all of GDPR globally by mathie25 on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @11:30PM (#16751648)

Could you link to some of those interpretations or give the article/recital where you think this could be possible ?

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Re:Facebook CEO says no plans to extend all of GDPR globally by nugget on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @12:30AM (#16751930)

I don't know that much has been written about this yet, but consider data portability as one example. If an EU court rules that Facebook must allow extraction of a social graph with an email address and consistent ID included for each contact, it dramatically weakens their network effect and lowers the barriers to on-boarding users onto competing social networks.

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Re:Facebook CEO says no plans to extend all of GDPR globally by kolmogorov on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @12:39AM (#16751979)

In that scenario I could also write a quiz app that gives you your personality based on that export. That would be an amazing data set for a researcher at e.g. Cambridge and an example of the EU supporting researchers.

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Re:Facebook CEO says no plans to extend all of GDPR globally by tanilama on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @01:20AM (#16752174)

Hello n, what you described is what Cambridge Analytica did. Zero chance Facebook would risk their business, AGAIN.

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