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I wonder how many people that are claiming Facebook should shut off access to their api insult Apple for their walled garden in the same breath

Yes building tech companies that people love to use and provide high paying jobs does not benefit the citizens of a country

Thank you for showing me the supposedly trivial guide to understanding GDPR. The only thing that website has shown me is that no globally competitive tech company will ever grow out of the EU for the next hundred years or so.

Can you tell me what I need to do to make a gdpr compliant website?

Is it the hacker news mindset that you should need a law degree to launch a website now?

GDPR is so bad that I would rather make a HIPAA compliant service than a GDPR compliant service.

I really hope nothing remotely similar to gdpr is written into legislation in the US. I do not even know how I would get started writing a website that would adhere to GDPR requirements

If people aren't responsible for who has access to their data who should be?

The Facebook permissions when granting a third party app access to your data couldn't be more clear

Yes I'm sure, your links don't bring up any new points. Facebook does not have my medical records.

You don't need to do that detailed of an analysis. If you see a YouTube video in a website, YouTube knows you saw the video. That simple.

I'm trying to understand what you people that are reacting to this Facebook incident so emotionally actually want done

Do you want logging ip addresses to be banned? Do you want cookies to be banned? Do you want embeddable html to be banned?

Because all I see is outrage without any real suggestions

If people were educated with how the internet works they would know that the second you load some piece of content from someone else's servers they have your information as well.

Only when associated with medical records...

I'm the same person as the other account btw, not trying to hide that.

I really don't understand how people are being exploited here

Shift blame? Facebook created an API that would allow people to create genuinely useful apps provided that users allowed them to access their data. I can think of a thousand interesting use cases for the data Facebook provided through their api.

One bad actor screwed everyone.

I'm surprised at how few people on hackernews have ever built or worked with apis.

Facebook essentially built an open platform and now they are being punished for it because people are too stupid to understand what they are signing up for.

Do you not understand how platform apis work? If you sign up for a third party app using Facebook and give them permission to access all your data you should expect them to capture all of your data

I wonder why the EU is an afterthought when you need to spend millions on compliance for every new feature