Re:Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding E...
by throwaway2245 on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @07:02PM
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I understand that those laws have been updated: that EU law is initially being adopted with appropriate changes, i.e. it won't reference the EU any more and will reference the UK instead (and isn't defined around citizenship anyway)
Re:Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding E...
by avianlyric on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @07:13PM
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I have a similar understanding, what will be interesting is how the UK will enforce its rules. Facebook has its HQ in Ireland, which notable not in the UK. This also applies to most other US companies.
Kinda makes me suspect that some companies will just ignore UK data protection law on the basis the UK can't do squat to enforce it.
Re:Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding E...
by throwaway2245 on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @07:21PM
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Yes, same. Also, Facebook has Nick Clegg on staff.
That suggests they've spent 2 years explicitly lobbying for whatever UK law changes they want, and will probably quickly get them.
Something I've seen in lots of UK law derived from EU directives is that it applies limits to behaviour specifically happening in the EU. So UK privacy law might provide a whole load of protections to EU citizens, but not specifically to UK citizens, because EU citizens would be a superset including UK citizen. Except, as of 1st Jan 2021, that won't be true any more.