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Well, companies have to abide by the rules of the country they operate in, hopefully we can both agree this is a good thing? I can then say that I wish FB didn't chose to be present in Thailand at all, but since they are there, they should comply with the laws.


offtopic, absolutely!

But Facebook/Whatsapp don't abide to the European GDPR.


They don't? In what way? At least through a very quick google search it seems like they do?

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/17/facebook-gdpr-changes/


no they don't : European citizens have not sufficiently been informed of pii-data sharing between Whatsapp/facebook :

https://www.politico.eu/article/whatsapp-privacy-fine-data-p...




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