Facebook and Google hit with $8.8B in lawsuits on day one of GDPR

Re:Facebook and Google hit with $8.8B in lawsuits on day one... by Pulcinella on Friday May 25, 2018 @05:06PM (#17157985)

???

GDPR doesn’t require that EU users get to use your service for free. If you want to do business in the EU, you have to comply with EU law. If you don’t want to do that, then don’t do business in the EU.

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Re:Facebook and Google hit with $8.8B in lawsuits on day one... by alternate24 on Friday May 25, 2018 @05:09PM (#17158007)

Look at what this case is about, Facebook and Google are saying if you want to use our service you need to enable tracking otherwise don't use our service.

This lawsuit states that Facebook and Google are not legally allowed to deny service.

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Re:Facebook and Google hit with $8.8B in lawsuits on day one... by Pulcinella on Friday May 25, 2018 @05:14PM (#17158046)

I am not a lawyer, but it seems that the plaintiff is basically arguing that, according to GDPR, if you want to offer a service in the EU then you can’t just have users waive their rights under the GDPR. You could not offer a service in the EU, but if you do then you can’t just tell your users “if you want to use our service, then you agree that GDPR does not apply to us.”

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Re:Facebook and Google hit with $8.8B in lawsuits on day one... by jacksmith21006 on Friday May 25, 2018 @08:16PM (#17159255)

Which is ridiculous. Ultimately they will have to just not offer products and services in the EU. The EU as others indicated will become a digital waste land.

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