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Fl8ixIDNon Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy rules

No need to speculate.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/419/made

Fl8ixIDNon Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy rules

Yes. And that also means protections remain the same regardless of this move from Ireland to US jurisdiction.

Fl8ixIDNon Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy rules

I don’t think this is correct. EU is pretty strong in favour of data localisation, UK is not. Moving customers to California doesn’t mean they are no longer under UK privacy rules, which of course are identical to EU privacy rules (for the foreseeable future, could change of course).

Fl8ixIDNon Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up

Common in the US, but viewed as bad corporate governance elsewhere. A separation of the roles has been a recommendation in the UK Corporate Governance Code since 1992, for instance.