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by TomMarius 3051 days ago
GDPR is a new law that's not even codified in most of the EU. FB is an USA company.
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mziel 3051 days ago
GDPR has been there for 2 years [1] and will start to be enforced come May. Facebook has a presence in the EU, since they're selling data about European users to European companies. Therefore they need to comply with European law.

[1] http://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj

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