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Re:Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy ... on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @06:17PM (#25436736)
No need to speculate.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/419/made

Re:Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy ... on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @06:14PM (#25436705)
Yes. And that also means protections remain the same regardless of this move from Ireland to US jurisdiction.
Re:Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy ... on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @06:12PM (#25436676)
I don’t think this is correct. EU is pretty strong in favour of data localisation, UK is not. Moving customers to California doesn’t mean they are no longer under UK privacy rules, which of course are identical to EU privacy rules (for the foreseeable future, could change of course).
Re:Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @05:40AM (#24564965)
Common in the US, but viewed as bad corporate governance elsewhere. A separation of the roles has been a recommendation in the UK Corporate Governance Code since 1992, for instance.