Re:Messenger API Updates for Europe
by bzb6 on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @05:19AM
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What makes you think the APIs could be changed to comply? Maybe there’s no way to implement what they used to do legally.
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You can see what API calls do not work on the listed page. Most of those should not require any privacy breaking features so it should absolutely be possible to implement them legally. They just don't like to do so.
Re:Messenger API Updates for Europe
by red_admiral on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @07:58AM
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This is just speculation on my part, but if facebook implemented these API calls in a privacy-respecting way for the EU market, then it would be very easy for the US government to suggest that the already-existing privacy-respecting version should be used in their jurisdiction too. Maybe that's what facebook wants to avoid?