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The EU lawmakers are doing what the gutless paid for and owned US lawmakers cannot or will not do. The US congress balooneyd around with Zuckerberg, he took th
by yawaworht1978 5y ago
The EU lawmakers are doing what the gutless paid for and owned US lawmakers cannot or will not do.
The US congress balooneyd around with Zuckerberg, he took the piss out of them.
The EU politicians are a little bit less shameless and do something to protect the population(not even the local electorate, they have the ability to see beyond the box).
Facebook and Instagram are designed to keep people more "engaged"(addicted) , in order to collect more data and push ads down everyones throat and retarget those who do not want any business with them.
Tried to delete FB, ig or WA account completely? Every imaginable Ui obstruction and retention trick will bother you on the way out.
The mother ship wants all the data intermingled to be more efficient. Hell no, team EU lawmakers all the way.
- shakezula 5y agoThis is why every time I hear someone complain about GDPR i gently remind them that it’s the exact type of legislation people say they want to protect their data. People are so short sighted.
- Barrin92 5y agoPeople also allocate the blame in weird directions. Like when the topic of the popups and privacy controls comes up people often blame lawmakers for making 'annoying' laws, when really they should blame the companies for violating privacy. The annoying popups exist because the companies are data hungry, the laws just require them to make it transparent.
- corobo 5y agoI want them to be safe with my data! I don't care about my customer's data!
- saddlerustle 5y ago> Tried to delete FB, ig or WA account completely? Every imaginable Ui obstruction and retention trick will bother you on the way out. Deleting WhatsApp is Settings -> Account -> Delete My Account -> Delete My Account Deleting Facebook is Settings -> Account Ownership -> Deactivation and Deletion -> Delete Account (With a very clear choice between deactivation and permanent deletion) -> Delete Account Compare that to unsubscribing from the New York Times...
- yawaworht1978 5y agoIt is true that subscription s and re occuring payments are much worse, but we are talking "freeware" here. Especially IG you have to do in the browser.
- talideon 5y agoExcept that's not really what happens with Facebook. I deleted my account there ages ago, and discovered later when checking haveibeenpwned.com that the email address I used there was part of a data dump from Facebook. So, do I believe that FB really delete your data when you request to permanently delete it? Nope, not in the slightest.
- saddlerustle 5y agoThe last published DPC audit found that it does [1]. There's really no reason to subject themselves to huge fines and lie about it, a very small fraction of facebook users delete anything. The "data dump" you're referring to was probably scraped from public facebook pages before you deleted the account. There has never to my knowledge been a case of private data becoming public that was exfiltrated from facebook proper. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20171218060100/https://www.datap https://web.archive.org/web/20171218060100/https://www.datap...
- wesnerm2 5y agoI know of two instances: 1) Facebook had a "View as" bug that allowed anyone to view anyone else's private page as that person. 2) Cambridge Analytica in which Facebook shared private information with third-parties under an NDA.
- NackerHughes 5y agoAs I recall, the 'View As' was a feature, allowing you to see your own profile and posts as would be seen by another person, so you could make sure your post privacy/visibility settings were set up the way you wanted. I used the feature quite often and was quite annoyed when they disappeared it one day. Do you have more info on this?