Next month the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect, which will give European Facebook users–and any users of Facebook who are subject to Facebook’s terms of services in Ireland–much more control over what data Facebook can access and store about them. Right now, all European Facebook users and Facebook users in … Continue reading “Facebook will exclude 1.5 billion users from new data privacy protections” Next month the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect, which will give European Facebook users–and any users of Facebook who are subject to Facebook’s terms of services in Ireland–much more control over what data Facebook can access and store about them. Right now, all European Facebook users and Facebook users in Africa, Asia, Australia, and Latin America are governed by the TOS with the company’s international headquarters in Ireland. That means 1.5 billion users of Facebook who live outside Europe would nonetheless be protected by the GDPR.Read Full Story