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Re:Facebook urged to make GDPR its “baseline standard” globally by decebalus1 on Monday April 09, 2018 @12:37PM (#16794562)
> can social media kill you though?

Yeah, it can and it did. Not only did the Ashley Madison leak led to a few deaths, check out what happens in countries where homosexuality is punished by death when private information goes public...

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Re:Facebook urged to make GDPR its “baseline standard” globally by wtfstatists on Monday April 09, 2018 @12:59PM (#16794770)
The States killed those people not Ashley-Madison.
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Re:Facebook urged to make GDPR its “baseline standard” globally by lmkg on Monday April 09, 2018 @01:37PM (#16795107)
It can be both. Responsibility is not a conserved quantity. Entities who take on private data should be considering the effects of that data becoming released, including what others may use it for.
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