Instagram launches “Data Download” tool to let you leave

Re:Instagram launches “Data Download” tool to let you leave by numerlo on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @04:54PM (#16916466)

>Two weeks ago TechCrunch called on Instagram to build an equivalent to Facebook’s “Download Your Information feature so if you wanted to leave for another photo sharing network, you could. The next day it announced this tool would be coming and now TechCrunch has spotted it rolling out to users.

So we've moved from companies trying to make compliance to GDPR look like they are doing us a favor out of the goodness of their hearts to now tech sites trying to take the credit for that too. Who will be the next I wonder.

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Re:Instagram launches “Data Download” tool to let you leave by antihero on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @03:52AM (#16919373)

A company using it's compliance to regulation as a PR exercise? Who'd have thought it!

Phone companies in the UK at least do this boasting EU free roaming as a "feature" they're so nice to provide, except that it's UK law. Three are the only network that did this voluntarily (and their Feel at home thing is also many places outside the EU which is nice)

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Re:Instagram launches “Data Download” tool to let you leave by NicoJuicy on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @03:57AM (#16919400)

It's a EU law, not an UK one

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Re:Instagram launches “Data Download” tool to let you leave by antihero on Thursday April 26, 2018 @06:34AM (#16930626)

I actually knew that, fuck knows why I typed UK.

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Re:Instagram launches “Data Download” tool to let you leave by dingaling on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @04:41AM (#16919622)

And a ridiculous one. It's a Common Market, not a Price-Flat Market.

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Re:Instagram launches “Data Download” tool to let you leave by Angostura on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @06:15AM (#16920144)

That is exactly what the regulations put in place. They don't mandate a price-flat market.

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Re:Instagram launches “Data Download” tool to let you leave by mantas on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @05:31AM (#16919882)

There're safeguards put in to prevent price-flat market situation. And it's damn nice when a day's trip to neighbouring country doesn't mean switching SIM cards or outrageous fees.

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Re:Instagram launches “Data Download” tool to let you leave by NicoJuicy on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @06:08AM (#16920098)

Explain that too people where their SIM card switches to the neighbooring countries provider.

And more importantly, surfing while on vacation in the EU ( 100 mb) won't cost you 200 €'s anymore. Some people had a vacation bill of 9.000 € of their provider ( source: newspaper & victim was local politician)

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Re:Instagram launches “Data Download” tool to let you leave by antihero on Thursday April 26, 2018 @06:38AM (#16930652)

It means more competition, because consumers can choose between effectively any provider in the EU. So if the providers in say Germany have awful deals, you could get a SIM from a company in the UK that has less shitty deals.

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Re:Instagram launches “Data Download” tool to let you leave by SmellyGeekBoy on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @03:43AM (#16919329)

The tabloid newspapers in the UK do this sort of thing all the time. I'm not sure what that says about TechCrunch, if anything.

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Re:Instagram launches “Data Download” tool to let you leave by deft on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @04:55PM (#16916477)

"We always had that feature!"

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