I'm confused. Facebook is a service. As a service it's terms are "your data is o...

jonathanyc · on March 20, 2018

It so happens that we live in a world where terms of service can be restricted by law through established processes.

If a country passed a law most of its citizens didn’t like, would you tell them to grin and bear it because “if you don’t like it you can just move?”

rjtavares · on March 20, 2018

And GDPR puts limits on those terms. Just like labour laws put limits on contracts between a company and its workers. You can agree to an illegal contract, but that contract is still void...

That's how society is supposed to work.

rmc · on March 22, 2018

That is not the position of EU law. In EU law, the person owns the data. There are limitations to what you can sign away.