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luciferofastora@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Surely they’ll actually comply, not be caught in an audit years down the line and given a friendly “Now now, we talked about this: don’t get caught breaking the law again!” slap on the wrist for failing to delete and instead further monetising that data?

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lemming741@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
This isn’t some trivial information like your precise location history, this is serious.

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dm_me_your_feet@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Under GPDR and DMA, there would be real consequences. Like “being broken up or cease to exist” magnitude of consequences. Why would they risk it for the 1% of users who actually care and set their privacy settings accordingly?

Google doesnt care about you or anyones personal data. They care about the amount they collect. If the most privacy-aware users wrestle back some data and have it deleted, so be it. Google couldnt care less. Users are like cattle to them, as long as the general “data harvest rate” they wont investigate the odd one out.

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- luciferofastora@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Forgive me for being cynical about the odds of those consequences actually being enacted. Giving the courts a weapon for getting such companies in line is one thing, getting the judges to actually fire it another.
  
  A law is only ever as good as its enforcement.
  
  If I’m wrong, of course, I’ll be glad to learn that. I’ve just run out of optimism halfway through adolescence.
  
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  - dm_me_your_feet@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Check this out:
    
    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Schrems
    
    Facebook (and the complicit Irish Data Protection Comission) thought so too, an were rekt.
    
    The case invalidated 2 seperate “safe harbor” agreements between the EU and the USA.
    
    And that was “just” GDPR, now they have way more EU laws they can throw at FAANG.
    
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    luciferofastora@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Huh. Neat. Thanks for that!
    
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