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Re:The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I B... by nerbert on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @08:27AM (#26710949)
If you’re a EU citizen contact your local data protection authority and file a complaint. It literally takes 5 minutes.
Re:The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I B... by dgellow on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @08:31AM (#26710977)
Relevant links.

"What should I do if I think that my personal data protection rights haven’t been respected? "

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...

"European Data Protection Board Members"

https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_en

Re:The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I B... by divbzero on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @06:31PM (#26718202)
Yes, please do this if you are protected by European regulations.

I also wish we could do more to put pressure on Facebook and other bad players. Can’t help thinking this is viewed internally as just more work for the legal department followed by an X billion euro “cost of doing business” fine after so many years.

Re:The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I B... by Nextgrid on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @08:40AM (#26711047)
And Facebook will promptly ignore that too: https://ruben.verborgh.org/facebook/
Re:The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I B... by lupire on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @08:46AM (#26711105)
1. That article is about downloading, not deleting.

2. You don't negotiate with Facebook, you norify the regulators so they can asses another billion-euro fine.

Re:The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I B... by zoobab on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @03:04PM (#26715950)
How much money can you get as damages?

Answer under the GDPR is probably: 0EUR.

Re:The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I B... by kergonath on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @07:46PM (#26718791)
It’s not the point. You can sue for damage if you want, but that is something else. The point of the regulation is to punish bad actors, not give money to users.
Re:The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I B... by eru on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @08:56AM (#26711198)
I'm not sure citizenship is required?
Re:The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I B... by kergonath on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @07:48PM (#26718812)
Indeed, citizenship is not required. You just need to be a resident.

It would be hard to argue that privacy is a human right and then limit the protections to citizens.

Re:The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I B... by eru on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @01:03AM (#26720783)
In German legal thought and practice, we have the distinction between Buergerrechte (civil rights, perhaps) and Menschenrechte (human rights).

The former is for citizens, the latter for everyone.

In the US, privacy falls in something like the former: there are supposed to be legal safeguards to keep US citizens from being spied on, but eg the NSA wiretapping foreigners is fine and even encouraged.

Re:The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I B... by kergonath on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @11:05AM (#26725977)
> In German legal thought and practice, we have the distinction between Buergerrechte (civil rights, perhaps) and Menschenrechte (human rights).

That is my experience in a couple of other European countries as well. Of course, some rights are reserved to citizens: vote (although that is changing for local elections), things like service at embassies and consulates abroad, and some aspects of immigration.

But except for these narrow aspects, the law should be the same for everyone: we are not a caste system.

Re:The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I B... by eru on Thursday April 08, 2021 @06:00AM (#26736951)
Voting has already been open for people from other EU countries in local elections for quite a while.

> But except for these narrow aspects, the law should be the same for everyone: we are not a caste system.

I agree that it should, but the biggest factor in most people's life is not silly things like voting, but the right to work.

Billions of people would like to live and work in the EU and the US, but are not allowed.

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Re:The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I B... by jeroenhd on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @12:09PM (#26713623)
The UK hasn't abolished their implementation of the GDPR (yet?) so you should still be to file a complaint with the ICO (AFAIK; IANAL).