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Leave Facebook if you don't want to be spied on, warns EU
GuardianUK ^ | Samuel Gibbs

Posted on 03/27/2015 4:46:43 PM PDT by BenLurkin

The European Commission has warned EU citizens that they should close their Facebook accounts if they want to keep information private from US security services, finding that current Safe Harbour legislation does not protect citizen’s data.

The comments were made by EC attorney Bernhard Schima in a case brought by privacy campaigner Maximilian Schrems, looking at whether the data of EU citizens should be considered safe if sent to the US in a post-Snowden revelation landscape.

“You might consider closing your Facebook account, if you have one,” Schima told attorney general Yves Bot in a hearing of the case at the European court of justice in Luxembourg.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: eu; eucommission; eussr; facebook; internet; spied; stockholmprogram; yeswescan

1 posted on 03/27/2015 4:46:43 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

...check out anytime you want, but...


2 posted on 03/27/2015 4:49:28 PM PDT by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
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To: BenLurkin

The EU Commission doesn’t want competition.


3 posted on 03/27/2015 4:51:45 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: 9thLife

I left because of all the winey little bastages that I went to high school 45 years ago.

They never grew up, they just bitch more.


4 posted on 03/27/2015 4:52:55 PM PDT by hadaclueonce (It is not heaven, it is Iowa. Everyone gets a "Corn Check")
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To: BenLurkin
"Look everyone, I'm taking a crap! See my floater!"

"Like!"

5 posted on 03/27/2015 4:55:12 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (GO WISCONSIN BADGERS GO!)
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To: hadaclueonce

Funny, the ones I went to high school with 20 years ago do that too. And anyone younger than me, forget it.


6 posted on 03/27/2015 4:59:40 PM PDT by Roos_Girl (The world is full of educated derelicts. - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: hadaclueonce

you are right- I had a fb prof there and it wasn’t all the winey little b’tards but the same old clique but more defined-with their ageing agendas and cliquish ways......

and here after all these years I felt guilty about not keeping in touch with these people.

What is it about these type of people? does life never move on for them or are they trapped ?.

I can’t imagine a life w/o new friends


7 posted on 03/27/2015 5:02:50 PM PDT by thesligoduffyflynns (sligo surf club)
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To: BenLurkin

Never did Facebook. Don’t see the appeal.


8 posted on 03/27/2015 5:03:19 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

It’s is a great way for me and my old shipmates to keep in touch. Other than that I don’t use it much.


9 posted on 03/27/2015 5:05:52 PM PDT by doc1019 (Blue lives matter)
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To: thesligoduffyflynns

” and here after all these years I felt guilty not keeping in touch with them “

Thanks for saying that , I don’t feel guilty anymore . But then I’ve always dealt with guilt reasonably well .


10 posted on 03/27/2015 6:25:41 PM PDT by katykelly
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To: katykelly

in a universe of one only the strong survive


11 posted on 03/27/2015 6:48:00 PM PDT by thesligoduffyflynns (sligo surf club)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

fb morphed into a gubmint funded proj once it was found out the implications for surveillance of ordinary citizens


12 posted on 03/27/2015 6:50:45 PM PDT by thesligoduffyflynns (sligo surf club)
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