Re:The EU's Link Tax Will Kill Open Access and Creative Comm...
by robin_reala on Monday October 29, 2018 @11:02AM
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Facebook under GDPR isn’t allowed to create a shadow profile of EU citizens: all consent has to be opt-in. OK, so they could have some legitimate interest argument, but I find it hard to believe that’d fly in an EU court. They’re also not allowed to use the consent of your associates to process your personal information without your own opt-in consent. So it’s going to be interesting when the first court case with Facebook as a defendant against the GDPR happens.
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Re:The EU's Link Tax Will Kill Open Access and Creative Comm...
by Xylakant on Monday October 29, 2018 @12:37PM
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Let’s see if that happens, but that’s tangential to the point. The GP was asserting that you can just ignore Facebook/Google and that act alone will remove all (ill) effect it might have on your life. I’m asserting this is false. If that effect is reduced by regulation, then this is the opposite of ignorance, it’s actively shaping what these actors can and cannot do.