The third Advent Reading concerning the relationship between Ireland's Data Protection Commission and Facebook, noyb have published Facebook's Record of Processing Activities document. Unfortunately, the document is generic and doesn't explain how Facebook is in compliance with the EU GDPR. Having reviewed the document and after speaking with an expert who has worked on hundreds of ROPA documents before, Max Schrems said, "Facebook's core GDPR compliance document is symptomatic of their ignorance of the law - it only has four pages. Usually such a document would be hundreds of pages. The Irish DPC knows about the lack of documentation since 2018, but did not take action."
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