Belgium: FIFA 18, CSGO and Overwatch loot boxes violate gambling laws, have to be removed or risk up to €1.6mil fines or 10 year jail sentence

[nanarchy]

CuCabeludo said:

Facebook moved 1.5 billion European users' data out of Europe to circumvent new European user privacy law. Any company can just move the operations/servers out of any country easily and give a giant middle finger.

These companies can just do the same and be free of this new rules, players can still play but they won't have local servers anymore or use a VPN at the worst case (region IP block).

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/19/facebook-moves-15bn-users-out-of-reach-of-new-european-privacy-law

I don't see how that helps them. The GDPR laws explicitly are about the data and whether you are personally a citizen or resident of the EU, it doesn't matter where the data is housed (in or out of the EU) Facebook would still be liable for any breaches under GDPR and still need to report on it and the 4% revenue fine would still apply should they fail to meet those requirements.

Edit: I understand now, basically cuCabeludo made some "creative" edits which is why it made no sense. They are NOT moving EU users data, they are moving NON EU users data. moving EU users data would have had zero effect as EU data isn't governed by borders, other countries data is though.o

Last edited by nanarchy - on 28 April 2018