Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts, to do data-poisoning

Re:Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts,... by jimkleiber on Saturday February 27, 2021 @10:39PM (#26290481)

I think they had a wave of people join from Germany either earlier this month or last month, so I imagine there are already plenty of Europeans on the app. Plus, doesn't GDPR apply even if there's just one user who resides in the EU?

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Re:Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts,... by srockets on Monday March 01, 2021 @11:43PM (#26311974)

Having European data subjects is enough ground to ask them to abide by the GDPR. But assume they won't, then you'll have to go to a European court, which could rule whatever, but it can't do much to a company that has no money or persons in the EU to collect from.

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Re:Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts,... by jimkleiber on Saturday March 06, 2021 @06:46PM (#26371644)

Yup, I've been wondering just how inept national and local government seem to be in regulating a global internet. Seems that if we want to have global internet, we eventually might have to come up with a more coherent form of global governance.

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