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Re:GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloud... by freeflight on Friday May 25, 2018 @05:00PM (#17157946)
Considering Facebook even actively tracks non-users, where's the "users" choice of not participating in that glorious Silicon Valley invention?

As far as I can tell, the "user" doesn't have a whole lot of choice there and Facebook isn't the only company doing that kind of aggregated data collection.

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Re:GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloud... by geocar on Saturday May 26, 2018 @10:02AM (#17162059)
Facebook is based in Ireland ostensibly for tax reasons.

I see them as a very poor example of good things coming out of Silicon Valley...

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Re:GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloud... by freeflight on Saturday May 26, 2018 @06:22PM (#17164552)
I'd agree with that if Facebook would be that single outlier nobody wants to emulate.

But Silicon Valley isn't a monolith where everybody is on the same page about everything, I have no doubt there's plenty of people in SC who consider FB a success-model to be followed into a shining future.

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