Should the #EU rethink its policies & laws, and make the necessary changes, after #Meta Inc choose to leave out the entire #EU from the launch of their new product (#threads)?
Yes
4.8%
No
95.2%
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@pyannakas

I'm missing a third option:

"HELL, NO!!!"

#ThankGodForGDPR
#ThankGodForDSA
#FuckOffStasiMeta

@proscience Let start controversial discussion: I am totally against of #GDPR. Handling personal data is a repeating and a long-term process, usually the secondary part of a transaction. The opt-in concept make no sense at all. It is like we have to fill forms each time we want to breathe.

@pyannakas

No, let's don't because I'm totally not interested.

I will fight tooth and nail for my privacy rights as /default/.

One of the reasons being that the criminals from Meta et al prove every single day that they even violate them in the current form.

Farewell.

They violate them even

@proscience I agree that Meta is our modern (social) criminal. But what if the weapon GDPR is a wrong weapon and we just hurting our selves? We have all the shits products from Meta, but we don't have the most promising; they promise even Activity Pub Support. Are you sure that the California Consumer Privacy Act is not a better approach?

@pyannakas @proscience
There are six legal basis for processing personal data (art 6.1) and consent is the most crappy one and imho only used when there are no other option available, but bizz wants to process anyways.

Not the legislation that is the issue

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-6-gdpr/

Art. 6 GDPR – Lawfulness of processing - General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Processing shall be lawful only if and to the extent that at least one of the following applies: the data subject has given consent to the processing of his or her personal data for one or more specific purposes; processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party … Continue reading Art. 6 GDPR – Lawfulness of processing

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

@proscience Lastly, it seems one of Meta's disagreements is related to Digital Market Act

https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/07/06/why-has-threads-metas-answer-to-twitter-not-launched-in-the-eu

Why is Threads, Meta’s Twitter rival, not launching in the EU?

Meta’s new app has been listed in the US and the UK, but has no foreseeable launch date in the EU yet as the company worries about the bloc’s privacy regulations.

euronews