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by kennell 2956 days ago
Do you think that the GDPR has really changed anything for either Facebook or its users? Do you think that anything changed in the way data is being handled? All i see is a bunch of highly paid law firms writing up 200 additional pages in terms and conditions to shield the company, but nothing really changed as far as daily business is concerned.
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robin_reala 2956 days ago
Two hundred extra pages of new privacy info in the T&Cs would fail GDPR:

The information you provide to people must be concise, transparent, intelligible, easily accessible, and it must use clear and plain language.

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da...

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vmateixeira 2956 days ago
If a company has money to hire lawyers to make an extra 200 pages of T&Cs, I'm sure they will have the money to argue that those pages are "concise, transparent, intelligible, easily accessible, and it must use clear and plain language".
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icebraining 2956 days ago
Not yet, it'll take a few lawsuits. See the work of Max Schrems:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Schrems

https://www.fbclaim.com

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zerostar07 2956 days ago
Apparently they are already GDPR compliant (FB). In their case it's actually easy to justify their legitimate interest because their entire business is the handling of private data. Ironically, even though GDPR is supposed to affect things like facebook more, it changes very little about the way they work.
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icebraining 2956 days ago
Whether their business model is handling data is irrelevant; they must ask for consent to use that data for ads and such - and that's even if they already have collected the data to provide a service requested by the user.

They recently came out with a new screen asking users to consent to a bunch of things, so they weren't compliant until then, and I wouldn't bet they are now.

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foepys 2956 days ago
Considering that GDPR is only in full effect after May 25th 2018, there is nothing to talk about in regards to its effect right now.
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taysic 2956 days ago
It seems most of their GDPR user facing changes have been made: https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/17/facebook-gdpr-changes/
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