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> Facebook and Google on the other hand make their money from stalking people and developers are giving them data in a nice standardised format. Do we know tha
by d1zzy 7y ago
> Facebook and Google on the other hand make their money from stalking people and developers are giving them data in a nice standardised format.
Do we know that the privacy policy/terms of service for these services allow Google/Facebook to use the data in the way that the BBC article seems worried about?
And before you say that "it doesn't matter what the ToS says", it does very much matter, breaking a ToS would paint a very big target no these companies, there are tons of lawyers out there that would love to catch companies at this, easy money.
- Nextgrid 7y agoFacebook claimed 2FA phone numbers would not be used for advertising. They eventually broke that claim. There are thousands of companies breaking the GDPR (Facebook and Google included) and yet I have yet to see the tons of lawyers going after the easy money. Companies keep doing it because they know the regulation isn’t enforced.
- edmundsauto 7y agoIt's interesting, given the reputation of ambulance chasers, that attorneys are deciding to ignore easy money. Why do you think this is?
- PeterisP 7y agoThere's no easy money for lawyers in GDPR - the big financial 'teeth' of GDPR are in the form of fines enforced by regulators to the state, not (as often in USA) in the form of huge civil lawsuits from which private law firms could get a share.