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Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    Aral Balkan‏ @aral May 22

    Note: asking Facebook to “eradicate fake accounts” is equivalent to asking Facebook to validate people’s identities – i.e., gather even more data. Be careful what you ask for. #Zuckerberg

    9:59 AM - 22 May 2018
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      1. Steve Purkiss‏ @stevepurkiss May 22
        Replying to @aral @schestowitz

        Surely that's their ideal plan.

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      2. Vladimir Vlach‏ @vladaman May 22
        Replying to @aral

        I feel like @EU_Commission is making Facebook more powerful then ever. #GDPR will make business environment less competitive and harder for newcomers to enter market. Startups will not have the resources to fight and compete. Doing business in EU will get more expensive.

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      2. Elizabeth M.‏ @hackylawyER May 22
        Replying to @aral @windley

        “If the personal data processed by a controller do not permit the controller to identify a natural person the data controller should not be obliged to acquire additional information in order to identify the data subject for the sole purpose of complying with this Regulation.”

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      3.  🦇 kelly  🦇‏ @kelly_naimepas May 22
        Replying to @hackylawyER @aral @windley

        What does that mean?

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      4. Mark Dittmer‏ @MrMarkDittmer May 22
        Replying to @kelly_naimepas @hackylawyER and

        It means companies cannot claim the #GDPR requires them to collect even more data in order to be sure of your true identity.

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      5.  🦇 kelly  🦇‏ @kelly_naimepas May 22
        Replying to @MrMarkDittmer @hackylawyER and

        Okay cool thanks. The natural person bit threw me off but I don't think this new legislation is very easy to understand (what I've saw of it). Does that mean as an anonymous user you can request your data without giving your passport or whatever or am I completely off ?

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      6. Mark Dittmer‏ @MrMarkDittmer May 22
        Replying to @kelly_naimepas @hackylawyER and

        I'm not familiar enough with the legislation to answer that. The quoted passage does not seem to impose that obligation on service providers.

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      1. elgrypto‏ @elgrypto May 22
        Replying to @aral

        Ever heard of @civickey @VinnyLingham ? #Blockchain might help us get there. But hopefully helps us get rid of Facebook too @steemit #btc

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      1.  🦇 kelly  🦇‏ @kelly_naimepas May 22
        Replying to @aral @stevepurkiss

        Fake accounts don't matter. Spam ones should be fairly easy to spot and get rid of. If you don't like something someone is saying you can't just label it fake, bot, Russian etc. That's what's going on here.

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      1. Richard Vadnay‏ @RichVadnay May 24
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        Valid point, Aral! Seconded!

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      1. Rui Rodrigues‏ @RuiRodTweeter May 23
        Replying to @aral

        Sorry, but it’s Facebook’s own policy to not allow fake profiles. They have to police it otherwise what’s the point of having a policy if everyone can cheat?

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      1. Madison‏ @Maddie_Miller4 May 23
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        They already ask for phone numbers, etc. when they really shouldn't!

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      1. Malthus John‏ @MalthusJohn May 22
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        More like asking a bank to burn its old money. FB has built itself on a single-metric lie of "billions of users" (misquoted 100% by the ignorant, unquestioning media parrots).

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