The GDPR will not bring Twitter problems in the short term. As far as they wish they comply now and any revised regulations have a timeframe of several years for implementation (not that I am aware of any in the making). Twitter may have a problem with enforcement depending who has been let go. Enforcement would mean to check compliance of the way Twitter handles personal data collected and transferred out of the EU realm, that could happen when Twitter changes program code on the whim of the new owner.Shizzle Popped wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 9:35 am With the massive cuts in workforce I keep wondering how long it will be before Twitter runs afoul of the GDPR (EU privacy regs). Unlike here in the U.S. where the laws aren't nearly so strict and the fines are frequently nothing more than a slap on the wrist, the EU doesn't play around.
Twitter has an EU subsidiary in Ireland for that purpose. "Twitter International Unlimited Company, an Irish commercial entity, is the controller of our data in the European Union, EFTA States, or the United Kingdom, so if you are located in the European Union, EFTA States, or the United Kingdom and you share data with Twitter, you share it with Twitter International Unlimited Company. "
see also: https://gdpr.twitter.com/en/faq.html
Apart from the GDPR privacy there are the privacy laws enacted varying by each country. There is no such thing in Europe like the 1st Amendment and the level of speech permited as in the USA. Divulging personal details of a person in public can quickly become a liability for the poster and therefore needs to be handled by the service provider (Twitter). The rules that defines slander and defamation are very strict, what may be acceptable in a family setting will become a criminal issue when spoken in a public setting such as on Twitter. The service needs to be able to track a statement back to the poster and reveal it to the investigating authorities.