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darkhorn
I'm EU citizen but I live out of EU. Will it be turned off for me? What I have to do? To change my country to a EU state?
Atropos
Theoretically the EU privacy laws do not apply to you, the scope of the law concerns EU territory only. But of course I don't know how Facebook will handle its compliance, so maybe changing your country to an EU state might work.
X-Istence
I am an EU citizen that signed up for FB while in the US, but ever since I used it in The Netherlands (where I am from) it has shown my account in the UK... meh, whatever.
mibbitier
Misleading title. It'll be off by default, but users will be able to turn it on if they want.
ConnorRoberts
thanks for the clarification, this was pissing me off :)
comice
Privacy is dead. Except where it is still enshrined in law.
kyriakos
It's good European Union does something useful for a change
rhizome
Pfft. They have tons better privacy protection than the US. Privacywise, the US is pretty terrible due to a business-favoring regulatory regime.
rmc
EU has done lots of consumer and 'little guy' laws, like employee rights law, anti-discrimination law etc.
antihero
This website is an utterly chaotic mess of information.
sabalaba
I know a lot of people in the industry are wondering if this type of legislation will come stateside. Don't know if anybody else noticed this, but with Google+ it looks like they've already implemented "opt-in" style facerec.

But I think people will be surprised how high the rates are when they make the 'opt-in' button the big blue one.