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13d ago

Irony isn't dead... Facebook sues EU on data privacy grounds for requesting too much personal data

Notwithstanding Facebook's business model of encouraging the world's citizens to upload such details about themselves to Facebook's services for the company to monetise, the suit has been filed in the EU General Court in Luxembourg. 2

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The mere existence of the case is troubling for Brussels, which sees itself as a global centre for data protection and enforcement. 1

micshasan

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6d ago

from Medium

Dataistic World — The Age of Big Data and Dataism

Nowadays, it has become much more fashionable to simply ask what the data shows as if data could replace thinking. 1

If algorithms already know what we think, want, and need, why bother with politicians and representative governments? 1

JamesJalaPayneo

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10d ago

from kuan0.com

Schrems II: data localization, encryption & the bigger picture

But - this is the 21st century. 1

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Organisations physically located in geographic location A can remotely access data stored in geographic location B. 1

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If the third country's already grabbed it (strictly, made a copy of it), then deleting it from your third country storage afterwards or "repatriating" it afterwards isn't actually going to magically delete their copy. 1

akrylov

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18d ago

from iapp.org

Using SCCs post-'Schrems II': Guidance from DPAs

The IAPP is also crowdsourcing and curating a "Schrems II" resource page with links to each DPA's statements and guidance on the ruling that will be updated as more of these resources become available. 2

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Lastly, multiple DPAs issued statements that emphasized that the ruling validated the use of SCCs as a transfer mechanism. 1

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