Re:Meta prohibited from using personal data for advertisement
by burkaman on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @11:20AM
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I guess I don't understand the unpredictability argument. Everything that I've read since GDPR passed 4+ years ago has predicted that Facebook's data harvesting would be illegal. It was a very straightforward and predictable consequence of the law.
Re:Meta prohibited from using personal data for advertisement
by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @11:22AM
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> Everything that I've read since GDPR passed 4+ years ago has predicted that Facebook's data harvesting would be illegal
The Irish DPA disagreed. We can write that off as biased, but that’s sort of the point. Each member DPA has its pet biases, and predicting how they’ll act and how those actions amalgamate at the EDPS is nontrivial. That’s a cost of doing business in Europe that derived from GDPR’s bureaucratic design, not from its regulatory aims.
One can agree with the measure and disagree with its deployment. Here, a quasi-judicial body with opaquely-appointed members created a rule ex post facto. It’s a good opinion. But that sort of unpredictability obviously has a cost. (Agencies in America face similar criticism.)