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Facebook Is Trying To Exclude 1.5 Billion Users From Stricter Privacy Regulations
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, a strict set of laws governing what data tech companies can collect on users, requiring them to seek explicit opt-in consent before doing so, and promptly disclose breaches, goes into effect on May 25, 2018. Currently, the GDPR would require Facebook to apply these changes to 1.9 billion…