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 <[email protected]> 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 > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ > Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
