Laughable, how they put it.
data protection agencies in 11 European countries – and those agencies, led by Ireland, telling the Facebook giant to scrap the slurp.
They are making such a pathetic show about their own decision to observe the law.
And this is a law that is clearly and openly readable. You don’t need legal experts to understand the basics, and you don’t need any agencies telling you that you must observe it.
They are constantly giving the impression as if they were a gang of professional outlaws and only if somebody catches them redhanded, then they are able make a decision - one decision for one case, exceptipnally - to behave properly.
They are the worst of the worst, and I will never use an instance that voluntarily federates with Threads. I respect MS more than Meta, and that’s a pretty incredible feat on the part of Meta.
MS is catching up tho. Imagine Facebook style OS lol can’t escape the tracking ever
Good thing I avoid them too.
You mean like Android?
Ya… It can be de gogoled tbo
Sure, but my point was that you don’t have to go far to imagine such a thing. It’s been here for ages.
Touche.
Once electronics get cheap enough, FB will probably ship free devices with some fbOS spyware. Like how they’ll zero rate data if they’re allowed to in a given region.
Such “pay for play” arrangements favor big content providers who can afford to pay for access to users’ eyeballs, and marginalize those who can’t, such as nonprofits, startups, and fellow users.
And sure as fuck corrupt Ireland hosting US big tech should NOT be the one leading anything privacy related… It is a charade IMHO
Well you’re certainly entitled to an opinion
Record speaks for itself.
EU commission had to tell Ireland to tax apple because Ireland can’t ready the law properly…
Now lets put these clown I’m charge of privacy??? Loolz
That’s not a proper understanding of that situation either
Then educate the public champ
common eu w
Its crazy how much further ahead Europe is in Privacy Protection.
All these companies need to be held responsible for what they do with our data, and what it costs them when they lose control of it. Either figure out how to safe guard it or suffer painful consequences. Or perhaps only store what’s necessary for us to interact.
But then again, we also have pretty much every EU group pushing for super invasive chat control. It’s ridiculous how schizophrenic they are on the subject of digital privacy.
Yup, the EU isn’t a role model for the world or anything. They have some good laws, and those should be replicated elsewhere, but don’t assume that just because they got a few things right, that they don’t mess up in other really important ways.
They are telling what they care about, take notice.
I am once they get a local AI grfiter, they will change tune too.
It’s not the same groups and entities pushing these things. It looks contradictory because it all ends up submitted to the same legislative bodies but that’s par for the course in a functional democracy.
Yeah, seems weird, but there’s also points where it’s not related at all.
One is a company using user data they didn’t tell they would use for this purpose, and illegally trying to do it anyway. They literally sell the data by making a product of it. It’s also a private company with stakeholders.
Other is EU scanning messages, but not selling them.
So it’s about who you trust basically.
Don’t worry, maybe Meta can eventually just buy the inevitable leaks resulting from the general chat surveilance the EU so vehemently tries to push through.
