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dubviber23 karma

Another one: you report that FB claims that 'the Irish regulator had never requested any changes that would have prevented the Cambridge Analytica scandal.' Schrems raised access to data by third-party apps in his complaint and it was covered in the two audits carried out by the DPC. Did FB provide any argument to refute the conclusion that if they had shut down such data access in 2011/12 then it would have been impossible in 2014 for Aleksandr Kogan's app to collect the data which would be passed on to CA?

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dubviber18 karma

This is a massive problem and the national security activities are AFAIK outside of the GDPR.

Biometric data is special category data under GDPR, many of the databases used to train these systems are composed of images used without the user's consent, how do you rate the chances of the law being able to block this?

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dubviber9 karma

Hi Nick,

Enjoyed the article. How did the entry into force of the GDPR allow FB to start sharing the data of Whatsapp users again? I understand that Ireland became the lead authority but not why that should have led to the setting aside of the decision of the Hamburg Data Protection Authority.

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