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I watched the committee hearing, and there didn't seem to be much partisan politicking going on. The primary focus was protecting the privacy of users, which im
by programmarchy 4y ago
I watched the committee hearing, and there didn't seem to be much partisan politicking going on. The primary focus was protecting the privacy of users, which impressed me. However, at one point Lindsey Graham mentioned he and Elizabeth Warren were in agreement enough to start fleshing out some kind of social media operator licensing regime, which sounds terrible.
- unconed 4y agoWhat bothered me the most is that they vaguely referred to Europe's data protection having more teeth, even though the GDPR has all but been neutered via Legitimate Interest. Most GDPR popups now classify "building a personal profile", "serving personalized ads" and "linking multiple devices" as legitimate interest, and they still default it to on, without a clear and equally-visible "No" button next to the "Agree". This is so obviously against the intended spirit of the legislation but it's everywhere. So yeah, large targets like Twitter might need to watch out, but third parties are still harvesting data left and right, so what's the point?