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Comment by nautilus12 | Hacker News Reader

This is misleading and a great example of negative spin, should read more like “Facebook to not include newly rigorous european privacy enhancements”

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This article is a dupe of another on the front page which does essentially say that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16750976

That is, to a certain extent, disingenuous as well. How about "Facebook will not roll out European privacy-related code changes to US"

Even better

Nope, more like: "Facebook will not roll out European privacy-related code changes to rest of the world"

GDPR is not just about "code changes", it includes any entity handling/processing data (marketing, sales, operations,..)- not just code, or the frontend UI.

Agreed, my comment was just a refreshment of title from previous commenter

Maybe it's a consequence of people naturally caring more about their surroundings, but sometimes it seems HN only sees Canada, South America, Africa, Asia and Oceania as minor oddities. All comparisons and debates center around the US vs. Europe.

> Maybe it's a consequence of people naturally caring more about their surroundings Agreed.

I actually find HN more globalist, than let's say mainstream US media or US based tech media, as represented by the OP techcrunch article.

It doesn't look like they committed to that? They're waffling, but that's the opposite of a commitment.

The problem is that people don’t understand what GDRP is. It’s much more than just how you ask people for access to their private data...there is a whole legal system behind it that’s very specific to how the EU works. It makes no sense to ship GDRP globally...what does make sense is to make the privacy controls available globally and as far as I understand Facebook is doing that

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