Facebook Says it Will Stop Operating in Europe If Regulators Don’t Back Down
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European regulators are cracking down on Facebook's ability to transfer data across the Atlantic. Now the tech giant is threatening to pull its services from more than 400 million European users.
  • ReK2
    12•4 years ago

    please YES stop, get the fuck out of europe please

    • DessalinesA
      12•4 years ago

      This is a totally hollow threat from facebook. Theyd have to be dragged kicking and screaming out of Europe.

      • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
        7•4 years ago

        Yeah, there’s no way they’d actually voluntarily pull out from any market.

            • @TheAnonymouseJokerOPM
              1•4 years ago

              Most of EU does not align with USA exactly, so there is a silver lining.

      • @TheAnonymouseJokerOPM
        1•4 years ago

        They will be, if this is not a scapegoat publicity stunt just like Apple utilised their friend Facebook a while ago for publicising iOS 14’s now delayed privacy measures.

  • @lorabe
    11•4 years ago

    A small step for Europe, a big leap for mankind.

    • @TheAnonymouseJokerOPM
      3•4 years ago

      I am most interested in the fallout of WhatsApp as the big messaging app. A new better app can take its place that does not have anything to do with 14 Eyes or NSA.

        • @TheAnonymouseJokerOPM
          5•4 years ago

          Signal has similar problems to WhatsApp, as far as contact upload to cloud is concerned. That said, it is not an anonymity based messenger.

            • @TheAnonymouseJokerOPM
              1•4 years ago

              Telegram’s system is amazing in this regard. If they had E2EE by default, or if Signal adopts Telegram/Wire system of self assigning a username and hiding phone number away, it would be brilliant.

              If Wire had not gotten sold to USA, it would be my favourite messenger app.

    • @soloninja
      2•4 years ago

      now the usa needs to give them the boot

    • @brombek
      4•4 years ago

      The thing is that their business model is illegal in Europe (GDPR) in general. So they would need to find a different way of making money in Europe if they were to continue operating.

        • @brombek
          2•4 years ago

          Yeah, I am not sure from this articles what the “data transfer” part means. They say in another article:

          Facebook transfers data from its European users to its U.S.-based servers in order to serve those users more targeted ads.

          So I understand that this is not about social network data (posts, comments etc.) for which you consent to be published all over the place, but more with the secret tracking/behavioral data that is used for ad tracking and surveillance that they don’t have your consent. If that is the case then the problem is with the way they make money and not with the honeypot product, that is the social network.

          But yeah, many US businesses (e.g. Google) will be affected by this as Surveillance Capitalism is the main business model for many of them. And this is the best part :)

            • @brombek
              2•4 years ago

              Basically FB does the dirty work and allows merchants to keep their hands clean.

              Yeah, and they are “too big to fail” so they can do whatever they want. I hope the EU will show that this is not the case.