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Big Tech can transfer Europeans’ data to US in win for Facebook and Google (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago by LightDelaBlue@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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its over we are now at the same level of the us fuck taht shit fuck that gov . only good fock suck XXXX

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[–] Charliebeans@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What does this really change for EU citizens?

[–] Dahjoos@lemmy.fmhy.ml 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As a EU (plus UK) citizen, you have a bunch of pretty neat rights over your data due to GDPR, and unlike most other laws, violating GDPR can really hurt the perpetrator (since they get fined as % of revenue, not % of profit)

GDPR also allows the transfer of data to other countries, but only if the receiving country has privacy protection laws equivalent to GDPR, which excludes pretty much anywhere outside the EU/Eurozone

So, they basically get to ignore GDPR altogether, with no consequences, if this isn't shut down by the EU right fucking now

The results include, but are not limited to:

-Storing cookies in your computer without your explicit consent (user tracking)

-Targetted ads that you can't opt out of

-Foreign actors having access to your data

-No way to request the deletion of your data, alongside the erosion of most rights about them

-probably many more

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