On Fri, 14 May 2010 15:33:16 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> The EU is having a bit of a field day with it, it looks like, so
>> hopefully some good will come from that.
> 
> The fundamental problem is that legal systems are pretty much
> universally based on geography while IP is specifically designed to put
> every address equidistant from every other address.
> 
> If Facebook's entire operation was in the USA, what could the EU do?

That's a valid point, but at the same time, there are successful 
enforcements of privacy laws in different venues regardless of where 
services are hosted.

But I think with Facebook, they operate (as in "have servers located in") 
the EU, so the debate is something of a nonstarter as a practical 
exercise, but interesting as a theoretical exercise.

Jim

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