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Re:Meta prohibited from using personal data for advertisement by consumer451 on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @11:02AM (#34247185)
> It is the lack of a predictable regulatory landscape in Europe

I disagree that it is unpredictable. It is predictably a bit more pro-citizen/consumer than the USA. That should not be surprising to anyone at this point.

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Re:Meta prohibited from using personal data for advertisement by clnq on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @12:32PM (#34248644)
It's predictable. General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was signed into law in mid-2016 and came into effect in mid-2018.

That is two years to designate data controllers, processors, and a data protection officer, to ask for the customer's permission to collect personally identifiable data and implement secure storage.

I was working on a SaaS where personal data was the main kind of data we stored. It took two sprints and two audits to achieve GDPR compliance. It is now 2023, and Meta is still not compliant. No one can explain this away with "unpredictable".

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