Facebook's internal messages reveal plans to ignore European privacy laws

John Leonard
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Internal messages reveal Facebook's plans to ignore European privacy laws
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Internal messages reveal Facebook's plans to ignore European privacy laws

Internal exchanges between Facebook lawyers seen by Politico show that the company intends to ignore judgements by the European Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) that US privacy laws of...

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