Re:Noyb files GDPR complaint against Meta over "Pay or Okay"
by ben_w on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @04:05AM
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Broadly agree, except:
> Facebook is the big corporation the GDPR was largely written to try and reign in
As I understand it, GDPR was to keep all the different EU member states' rules on the same page and up to date, and was continuing the same path that had already been stated with the Data Protection Directive in 1995: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Directive
Most of the core ideas were already present before Zuckerberg finished[0] high school.
[0] and possibly started, but I don't know how US schools work.
> Facebook is the big corporation the GDPR was largely written to try and reign in
As I understand it, GDPR was to keep all the different EU member states' rules on the same page and up to date, and was continuing the same path that had already been stated with the Data Protection Directive in 1995: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Directive
Most of the core ideas were already present before Zuckerberg finished[0] high school.
[0] and possibly started, but I don't know how US schools work.