Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Social Media site MeWe and possible presence?

Thanks for the feedback Jonathon

IDK about simply being in the USA is a violation of GDPR, sounds a bit over
the top as far as an interpretation would go.

The service appears to do business in Eruope and supports a number of
languages for their UI:
English, 中文(简体), Deutsch, Español, 日本語, Français, Português, العربية,
Dansk, 한국어
are the ones listed. So I doubt the GDPR compliance is an unknown situation.

Drew





On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 6:28 PM jonathon <toki.kantoor@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 4/1/19 7:11 PM, Drew Jensen wrote:
> > created an account over on the MeWe.com website following a number of
> folks
>
> One _huge_ issue with MeWe is that it is based in the United States.
>
> My understanding is that under US Case Law, the terms and conditions of
> usage of a website are meaningless, irrelevant, and are to be
> disregarded, in the event of bankruptcy, foreclosure, or any other
> condition in which the sale of data is fiscally prudent. Unfortunately,
> I no longer have the relevant case citations.
>
> _The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018_ (CCPA) does not provide
> nearly as much in the way of personal data protection, as the EU GDPR.
> Personally, I think that it provides less in the way of personal privacy
> protection than the GDPR, but most of the material about it that I have
> read, claim otherwise. Furthermore, it (CCPA) only comes into effect 1
> January 2020, and then only if there are no court cases that need to be
> completed.  As an additional kicker, individuals outside of California,
> are excluded from its protection. Individuals residing within California
> are also excluded, if certain conditions are met.
>
> Whilst the GDPR is vague about both who, and where coverage applies,
> European privacy enforcement agencies have uniformly said that the
> location of the company that violates the GDPR doesn't matter, and that
> they will use the local equivalent of long arm statutes, to enforce it.
> (I think that the most recent harmonisation of the GDPR defined coverage
> to included both citizens and residents. For the time being, Estonian
> Digital Residents are excluded, unless they physically reside in the EU,
> or an area in which the GDPR is the law of the land.)
>
> I am not a lawyer.
> This is not legal advice.
>
> jonathon
>
>
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