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This is getting tiring. I have to submit a form to tell Facebook to delete data about my face. Submit a form to opt out of binding arbitration for each credit c
by eugeniub 7y ago
This is getting tiring. I have to submit a form to tell Facebook to delete data about my face. Submit a form to opt out of binding arbitration for each credit card. Submit a form to avoid being tracked. This whole mess puts a huge onus on the average internet user, and acts like it's the user's own fault if they're every movement and action is being tracked by a hundred entities at once.
- ineedasername 7y agoYeah, i get that there might be some people who only want to delete a few particular things, but there should be blanket options for entire categories of data, and any tracking/marketing data about you that you yourself did not provide to them.
- mjevans 7y agoI've never had, and intend to never have, an account with Facebook or any of their services. Can we please have sane legal defaults like Facebook ONLY having data profiles for those who have agreed to the creation of such profiles?
- smt88 7y agoSane legal defaults are great and necessary, but not enough. Google has iffy GDPR compliance to begin with and has now been caught circumventing it. Nothing will be effective short of jailtime for the execs responsible for flouting laws and public trust (not for making a mistake, but actually engineering workarounds).
- ufmace 7y agoThing about that, Facebook is known to construct "shadow profiles" of people who don't have normal profiles, just to correlate all of the data they happen to gather on you from having their tendrils on half the sites on the internet. It might be better off to create a profile with your info just to turn off as many things as you can, and not interact with anybody on it.
- ConcernedCoder 7y ago...yeah but how will you ever get them to delete all the forms you've submitted?
- journalctl 7y agoIt’s forms all the way down!
- ssss11 7y agoYou’re absolutely right - it should all be opt-in. The issue it would seem is that it would no longer be profitable for these companies. I’m also tired of company profits over citizens privacy.
- ianai 7y agoIt should be societies preference to create the individual property rights for the individual. If a company is profiting off peoples likeness then peoples likenesses are a personal property. Blows my mind that a capitalist society doesn’t get this instinctively and demand it.
- journalctl 7y agoAnd then at the end, they don’t even really abide by those forms anyway. It’s like getting Shell to stop selling oil or Merck to stop selling drugs: Facebook isn’t going to stop doing what its entire raison d’être is until we use the iron force of law to make it so.
- pesenti 7y agoThe feature is now opt-in. It is turned off for all new users and for those who only had the "tag suggestion" setting on. Disclaimer: I work at Facebook and this feature is managed by my team.