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On Thursday David Ingram of the Irish Times newspaper, in Ireland, reported that Facebook is set to make changes to its terms of service/governance that will effectively put 1.5 billion members outside the net of the EUs new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which comes into effect on the 25th May. Currently, almost 1.9 billion Facebook users outside the United States and Canada are governed by the terms of service agreed with the companies’ international headquarters in Ireland. The Irish Times reports that, “Facebook confirmed the move on Tuesday” suggesting Facebook is keen to reduce its exposure to GDPR penalties, which allow for fines of up to 4% of global annual revenue for infractions. “The change affects more than 70 per cent of Facebook’s 2 billion-plus members. As of December, Facebook had 239 million users in the United States and Canada, 370 million in Europe and 1.52 billion users elsewhere.” – Irish Times In his recent Congress appearance, Mark Zuckerberg, when asked by Congressman Gene Green whether Facebook would extend the same protections to Americans that Europeans would receive under the GDPR, replied “Yes, Congressman. We believe that everyone around the world deserves good privacy controls. We have had a lot of these controls in place for years. The GDPR requires us to do a few more things and we are going to extend that to the world”. Today’s reporting by the Irish Times flags a significant concern for privacy protection advocates and could be highlighting the start of a trend by tech companies to isolate their users globally from terms of service and regulations such as the GDPR in Europe. LinkedIn, part of Microsoft, on the 8th of May will move non-Europeans currently contracted to LinkedIn Ireland, to contracts with US Based LinkedIn Corp. Apparently, these moves are to help users understand which legal entity is responsible for their data. https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/facebook-to-put-1-5bn-users-out-of-reach-of-new-eu-gdpr-privacy-law-1.3466837 https://www.eugdpr.org/eugdpr.org.html