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What kind of wannabe authoritarian regime bans a company from using data it owns?
by rubyist5eva 5y ago
What kind of wannabe authoritarian regime bans a company from using data it owns?
- akie 5y agoA "regime" that values the privacy of its citizens over the profits of a multinational?
- rubyist5eva 5y agoAh yes, just like the vaccine passports they will be implementing because they value "privacy". Sure.
- robin_reala 5y agoThe legal situation is that Facebook doesn’t own any of this data. It has collected it, but the data is owned and controlled by individual users, and they have the right to say what Facebook should be allowed to do with it.
- CRConrad 5y agoA legitimate democratically elected national government in a continental union that conditioned its anti-trust approval of the acquisition of WhatsApp by Facebook precisely on personal data not being used in that way. That "kind of wannabe authoritarian regime". HTH!
- rubyist5eva 5y agoJust because you were legitimately elected doesn't make you not authoritarian. Plenty of authoritarian regimes came into power legitimately, and then abused that power with popular support because the people thought it sounded like a good idea at the time. Anti-Trust is generally smoke and mirrors anyway - I can't think of any antitrust that actually did anything useful. AT&T was broken up, and then 5 of the companies merged back into it over time. Standard Oil was broken up and now we have Exxon (yay...). Microsoft was hit because they bundled IE with Windows but now they have IE, and Edge still bundled with Windows 10.