I think if I was to start a company the documents would contain made up synonyms for the the big, bad words.
Irony isn't dead... Facebook sues EU on data privacy grounds for requesting too much personal data
American tech giants have enjoyed a reversal of their EU legal fortunes over the past fortnight as Euro nation courts issued rulings in their favor – and now Facebook has even sued the European Union itself, alleging the political bloc’s agencies broke their own data protection rules. Facebook filed a lawsuit against EU …
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Tuesday 28th July 2020 19:52 GMT Tom Chiverton 1
Right out of the big ad tech playbook. File counter suit, drag out the case at some tiny cost to yourself (as % of profit) in order to both delay any final judgement and increase the chance of a negotiated solution favourable to you, because the other side will run out of money or patience first.
SOP
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Tuesday 28th July 2020 20:43 GMT Teiwaz
'Ow much?
"including highly sensitive personal information such as employees’ medical information, personal financial documents, and private information about family members of employees.”
You can't harvest more than was sown. Surely in requesting, they can only get as much information as Facebook is hold on their employees.
Just how much information is Facebook keeping on it's employees?
Too much that they feel revealing how much would damage the companies reputation (further)?
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Tuesday 28th July 2020 21:27 GMT Eguro
I'm not American, so it might simply be differences between cultures, but why on Earth does the employer (Facebook) have information about employees including:
"medical information, personal financial documents, and private information about family members of employees."
None of that seems like it would be particularly relevant (or even legal?) for an employer to possess?
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Tuesday 28th July 2020 21:40 GMT secondtimeuser
There's some fairly believable options for those;
Medical information: they had a sick day, on return to work they needed to give a brief reason for needing time off.
Personal financial documents: payslips
Information about family members: next of kin details for in the event of an emergency at work.
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Wednesday 29th July 2020 00:44 GMT eldakka
Due to the commercialization of US healthcare, the only way to realistically afford said healthcare is if one is either stonking rich or has insurance. Therefore many companies offer health insurance packages as part of employment which, amongst other things, is extra control an employer has over an employee, as it ads a level of fear in employees of losing their access to health, therefore providing incentive to employees to toe the company line or else get fired and lose access to healthcare. This also has the additoinal benefit (for the employer) of giving them a reason to obtain personal data from the employees under the guise of providing the health insurance. Therefore in the US a company may have obtained massive amounts of personal data in the guise of providing such services.
I'm assuming that this healthcare information is in part at least what they are referring to could be subject to thus data request.
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Wednesday 29th July 2020 10:00 GMT Anonymous Coward
It's called legal tourism. The UK courts will happily arbitrate on your dispute, for big fat fees obviously, even if it has little relevance to anyone in the UK. You may be a dodgy Russian oligarch squabbling with another dodgy Russian oligarch but British lawyers will happily represent both sides (Private Eye, ad nauseum)
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Wednesday 29th July 2020 01:29 GMT ratfox
I'm sure Google isn't hurting much about the €600k fine, but... How does that work? The ECJ ordered Google to examine requests for delisting, and now Google gets fined every time the regulators thinks it didn't take the right decision?
I thought the regulators had outsourced their job of handling privacy requests to Google, but I hadn't realized they would also make Google pay for the privilege...
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Wednesday 29th July 2020 16:03 GMT codejunky
Re: Interesting
"American tech giants have enjoyed a reversal of their EU legal fortunes over the past fortnight as Euro nation courts issued rulings in their favor – and now Facebook has even sued the European Union itself, alleging the political bloc’s agencies broke their own data protection rules."
The first paragraph on the article. The EU went after facebook and the court ruled in favour of facebook.
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Monday 3rd August 2020 12:34 GMT codejunky
Re: Interesting
@jake
"Re-read your quote. It quite clearly says "nation courts", meaning the courts of individual nations, not the EU as a whole."
I have reread it. Its even in the short bit at the top of the comments section-
"American tech giants have enjoyed a reversal of their EU legal fortunes over the past fortnight as Euro nation courts issued rulings in their favor"
So there are rulings in Facebooks favour, against who? Reading into the articles next paragraph- "Facebook filed a lawsuit against EU competition regulators on Monday alleging that enforcers were improperly seeking access to sensitive employee personal data."
But who's enforcers? Third paragraph- "EU regulators had made “exceptionally broad” demands"
Maybe this article isnt making it very clear or has it wrong but so far its looking like the EU is in the cross-hairs under EU law.
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