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Re:Ireland to Order Facebook to Stop Sending User Data to U.S. by classified on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @04:47PM (#24425740)
In this case, borderless tracking and surveillance.
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Re:Ireland to Order Facebook to Stop Sending User Data to U.S. by Spivak on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @07:05PM (#24426969)
I mean yes, but also the idea that a company in country X can operate a website usable by people in country Y without having to stand up/rent space in a data center there.
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Re:Ireland to Order Facebook to Stop Sending User Data to U.S. by PeterStuer on Thursday September 10, 2020 @01:51AM (#24429285)
Which would be perfectly fine if only the US had adequate privacy regulation.
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Re:Ireland to Order Facebook to Stop Sending User Data to U.S. by mindslight on Thursday September 10, 2020 @11:04AM (#24432978)
IMO it would also be perfectly fine if Facebook wasn't running any EU servers, was solely a US company, all use by EU users intrinsically sent data to the US, and were protected (or not) by US law. That would actually be the "borderless Internet". But that is not how they've set things up.
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Re:Ireland to Order Facebook to Stop Sending User Data to U.S. by PeterStuer on Friday September 11, 2020 @01:39AM (#24439502)
GDPR applies worldwide to EU citizen data regardless of where the servers are located.
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