Random question - is there a way to naturalize in the EU and use GDPR to ask Facebook to remove your data? (For example an Estonian digital citizenship)
I might be way way off and I am (obviously) not a lawyer but interested in material about this.
I’m a EU citizen and I’ve always been intrigued by Estonia’s digital citizenship. I’ve only picked a few tidbits about how it works and they may be wrong, so take this with a grain of salt.
From what I understand, a digital citizenship is different from a normal citizenship. It allows you to, for example, open a company, but I don’t know if it gives you enough to make you a EU citizen. In Portugal there’s a bit of a kerfuffle about the Golden Visa programme[1] because it’s seen as a way to buy EU citizenship for cheap[2] and cause problems for nationals[3]. I’m not aware of the same happening through Estonia, so it makes it me think it doesn’t give you EU citizenship.
In addition, you have to actually go to Estonia to set up the digital citizenship; it’s not something you can do completely offline and be done with it.
Methods such as marriage are not that effective in Portugal, at least at the moment. I know of two people with legitimate reasons to get Portuguese citizenship and the process has been a chore, taking years.
This is precisely why people should be upset over the massive data mining tactics of Facebook. Maybe it's not a big deal to some people that Facebook knows everything about them, but it should be a huge deal to everyone when that data is then accessed by hackers with malicious intent - from identity theft to blackmail to threats against life - all made easier with this data available to criminals.
Oh, wait, it doesn't matter since they move heaven and earth to collect and store my data anyway, and of course I can't get them to delete it.
Seriously, fuck Facebook.