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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
by 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