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maigret on Aug 19, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Germany vs. Facebook: Like Button Declared Illegal...

Privacy laws are actually mainly EU wide, which represents more than 300 millions people. Now you could say the US is little compared to China and India, but does it bring much value to the discussion?

arethuza on Aug 19, 2011 [–]

EU population is actually over 500 million

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union

maigret on Aug 20, 2011 | [–]

So my statement is still valid ;) Thanks for the correction! Think I mixed up things in my memory with the Eurozone, should have checked it.

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