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Re:European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrou... by monsieurbanana on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @11:30AM (#17356299)
Facebook doesn't need to justify it. All they need to do is send a notice to their users asking for consent. How many of them do will read what that entails, and how many of those would decide their privacy is more important for them than facebook?
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Re:European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrou... by tom_mellior on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @11:48AM (#17356472)
My understanding is that consent is not sufficient. In addition, data collection must directly serve a legitimate business purpose. Though I guess Facebook has lawyers willing to argue that anything they do serves their core business.
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Re:European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrou... by mrmr1993 on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @12:06PM (#17356649)
My reading of it was that you need either consent or a legitimate business purpose, not both.[0]

[0]: Article 6(1), https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A...

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Re:European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrou... by tom_mellior on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @12:36PM (#17356935)
Ah, yes. Agreed.
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Re:European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrou... by andy_ppp on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @11:32AM (#17356312)
What I mean is technical issues - searching an encrypted graph database has got to be very complicated!
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