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Re:“So the silence from Facebook over the weekend is.. deafe... by drewmol on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @11:33AM (#18122614)
There is an important distiction: Equifax's data is not voluntarily submitted by the data subjects, while most of Facebook's is.
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Re:“So the silence from Facebook over the weekend is.. deafe... by tyfon on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @12:03PM (#18122881)
Equifax is also not under EU (GDPR) jurisdiction afaik.
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Re:“So the silence from Facebook over the weekend is.. deafe... by Redoubts on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @11:55AM (#18122811)
That sounds worse for Equifax
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Re:“So the silence from Facebook over the weekend is.. deafe... by drewmol on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @12:05PM (#18122902)
Although I don't see this having a huge immediate impact on Facebook, the distinction is that if Equifax neglagently releases your PII there is little fallout as you are not the one providing Equifax with that data and cannot simply stop feeding them data, when Facebook does it their data subjects can choose to stop providing the data by exiting the platform. Facebook needs both the user data, and those same users patronizing their service to maintain the existing revenue stream.
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Re:“So the silence from Facebook over the weekend is.. deafe... by gavinsblog on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @12:24PM (#18123090)
Precisely.
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