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I ... don't think you're grounded in reality. What do you think Facebook is doing right now that currently break the law? Please, be specific.

• freeflight 7y ago
  Tracking users without their consent or them actually being users [0] is probably one of the most blatant ones for people in the EU. But it's not like there's a lack of other issues to pick from [1], of course, one can insist on it all being "alleged", but let's be real here on hackernews: If it's technically feasible, then it's most likely being done, legalities are regularly just an afterthought to the actual product, particularly when it's about the monetization of user data. A lot of that might be completely legal in the US with law-doctrines that undermine privacy expectations on a fundamental level [3], but the US isn't the whole world. [0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-privacy-tracking/facebook-fuels-broad-privacy-debate-by-tracking-non-users-idUSKBN1HM0DR https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-privacy-tracking... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine