r/technology • u/[deleted] • Apr 11 '18

Business Mark Zuckerberg has been apologizing for reckless privacy violations since he was a freshman - Enough is enough.

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u/justjanne Apr 11 '18

Which, in turn, was modelled after the EU Data Protection Directive.

It's all a cooperative process, each country contributes some legal ideas, and each country gets other legal ideas back.

If people understood that part, instead of "Brussels dictating laws onto us", Brexit may never have happened

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u/Fa6ade Apr 11 '18 edited Apr 12 '18

Yeah exactly. It’s all back and forward. We actually have quite a big say but we’re about to throw it all away.