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Good thing it is banned in the EU or at least in the Netherlands π³π±
EDIT: It is not banned it needs to be approved by GDPR
Whoops, my bad. Iβm gonna correct myself.
Thank you for this integrity and wisdom. You win the Internet from long ago today! Lol
No point in fighting if my sources are not correct or It must be a Dutch thing that we must correct ourselves haha.
What is GDPR approval? You just need to comply to the GDPR right?
They already donβt comply with it with FB lol, they have just got away with it for so long, believe it was mainly the the Irish regulators fault who is either some form of captured, anti-privacy or being bribed.
But it went to the EU level board, not sure how all that works, who finally hit then with a $1.2 billion fine and the demand they come into compliance. So maybe itβs off the back of that as well has gave them some pause
Seeing some articles reference the Digital Market Act, which seems to be around large platforms online, which seems to be more akin to competition law.
They did launch it in the UK, which still has all the GDPR laws/principles, just outside the EU context. Then again maybe that means any enforcement activities by the UK would start from scratch. Or maybe the lack of recent UK enforcement activity encouraged them