Congress won’t hurt Zuckerberg and Facebook, but GDPR and Europe could | WIRED UK: "Under pressure to be seen taking action on data protection, Zuckerberg – who, in 2010, remember, argued that privacy was no longer a “social norm” – announced on April 2 that he would like to extend the GDPR’s protections to all Facebook’s users “in spirit”.
No-one knew exactly what this meant – “We’re still nailing down details on this,” Zuckerberg told Reuters – and the backlash was swift. Op-eds were penned; tweets were fired out; US and European consumer groups made demands in open letters.
A few days later, Zuckerberg issued an apologetic (if still extremely unclear) climbdown.
Somehow, GDPR, bane of IT departments and sales tool of dubious “security consultants”, has turned into a political rallying point. It’s a bit like finding that your office HR policy has become the key text for a revolutionary movement." 'via Blog this'
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