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The parent of Yandex is actually a Dutch company (Yandex N.V.) — and leaks reveal how they use consumer data (www.confiant.com)

submitted 2 years ago by activistPnk@slrpnk.net to c/thenetherlands

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[–] mycoffeeisready 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Not naive, this is not much different. Not to mention that in the west we're making it a lot easier to be tracked (and controlled) with the coming digital identities and CBDCs. And most people will happily along with it.

[–] activistPnk@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 years ago

Perhaps what’s different about Yandex is that it was a leak the revealed their data abuses. The code does not match their claims:

“Remember that Yandex reportedly said that the data it collects is “non-personalised and very limited”? That does not seem to be the case.”

There are other mentions of blatant deanonymization of identities in that article. Whereas Google is relatively transparent about what they do by comparison.

Here’s an interesting point as well:

“In theory you should be able to take your data back if you live in a jurisdiction that requires companies to respect data deletion requests, but the insights derived from that data might be considered that company's work product and not included in that deletion.”

i also wonder- what if you don’t live in Europe.. doesn’t the parent ownership being in Netherlands mean that Yandex is GDPR-obligated to everyone worldwide as if it were an EU company?