Reply to post: "researchers to be given access to Facebook data. Like Dr Kogan?"

Social networks have already violated the spirit of GDPR

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"researchers to be given access to Facebook data. Like Dr Kogan?"

Exactly. It looks many are more worried about the impact on their own business than the "transparency" of data - which actually should not be available to dogs&pigs anyway - even behind the screen of "academic researches".

Data sharing is as dangerous as data collection - because you don't know in what hands they end, and what they are used for.

Data collection and use must be audited - but not to use the same data for personal advantage.

The problem with Facebook is the huge quantity of data it collects, and GDPR aims at making data collection and management far more transparent - for the citizens, not third parties looking to earn from it.

It can't forbid users to let their data collected without a good reason, if they are so stupid to allow it. Thereby yes, FB & C. already sit on a huge trove of data, unluckily. It's like pollution, you can put new rules, but the damage done takes years to heal. Still, it's no longer an unregulated land.

And of course FB & C. will try to be "compliant" while eluding the rules - just like they do with taxes and other rules, so really nothing new. It will be up to to the agencies tasked to ensure GDPR really work to control them and avoid to be deceived.

Any written rule doesn't magically work like a spell. It requires people to make it work. Expect a lot of lobbying to place accommodating people in those places...

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