Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish
luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 1 year agoForgive 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.
dm_me_your_feet@lemmy.world 1 year 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.
luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Huh. Neat. Thanks for that!