Re:Complaint filed against Irish subsidiaries of Apple, Face...
by pessimizer on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @01:55PM
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>The DPC can force [Irish] companies to reveal what they hold on people, and can require them to do (or not do) a thing if it breaks Irish data protection law.
>if you sign up to Facebook and you're not in the USA or Canada, then you have a legal relationship with Facebook Ireland Ltd, and fall under Irish data protection law.
Facebook can choose to change this, but they won't because they benefit from the double Irish; because that's "where the money is."
>if you sign up to Facebook and you're not in the USA or Canada, then you have a legal relationship with Facebook Ireland Ltd, and fall under Irish data protection law.
Facebook can choose to change this, but they won't because they benefit from the double Irish; because that's "where the money is."