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Re:T-Mobile USA doesn't comply with its German parent compan... by martin_a on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @07:03AM (#32481335)
tldr; but is this an American complaining that a US-based company is collecting lots of data and does not want to tell him which exactly, so he starts pulling out the GDPR because the mother company is EU-based? That contains quite some irony.
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Re:T-Mobile USA doesn't comply with its German parent compan... by Semaphor on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @07:14AM (#32481384)
Nah, it’s more that DT has a statement "Binding Corporate Rules Privacy" which could apply to T-Mobile US as it has language about subsidiaries.

And this is a user who specifically tries to choose EU companies for privacy reasons. So no irony either.

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Re:T-Mobile USA doesn't comply with its German parent compan... by pessimizer on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @09:40AM (#32482575)
I don't recognize any irony. It's just a observation that T-Mobile doesn't believe in German law. It's at least useful information for Germans, in case they're ever tempted to get rid of the laws and let T-Mobile "self-regulate."
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Re:T-Mobile USA doesn't comply with its German parent compan... by martin_a on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @09:57AM (#32482784)
It does believe in German law, but the author is neither German nor an European citizen, but a customer of a US company. GDPR does not apply to him.
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Re:T-Mobile USA doesn't comply with its German parent compan... by jraph on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @07:15AM (#32481395)
As a European person, I would support US people seeking to have something like the GDPR. I'd be very happy if the US adopted something like this.
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Re:T-Mobile USA doesn't comply with its German parent compan... by martin_a on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @03:28AM (#32493343)
I would _totally_ support that, too, yes. But that actual law in the US is just so far away from that, don't see how that would be possible.
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