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Facebook inches closer to European blackout
- john_the_writer 4y agoTBH. I'm with facebook on this. It makes me sad to agree with them. But yep a blackout seems the only logical way to deal with these laws. I've been part of a few projects where we blackout EU locals. Just not worth the risk.
- RGamma 4y agoSince all the social/entertainment media never really added value to society (beyond what was established previously) this is not a loss. All they ever did was installing an advertising channel into our inborn desire for socializing. And the pathological interaction of social media and individual and group psychology have been discussed at length elsewhere.
- justinclift 4y agoFrankly, a lot of people hope it will happen. That would of course lead to the rise of an EU-centric facebook-equivalent within a few heartbeats, so it's pretty likely Facebook will back down.
- jacooper 4y agoMastodon/fedi-verse would probably have a field day if Facebook gets banned.
- jacooper 4y agoIts not the EU's problem if the US wants to spy on the entire world. Countries shouldn't put up with such BS. US is all about the free market until Tiktok showed up, which shares data with the government like how meta shares data with the NSA.
- shock 4y agoThe risk of what?
- Yaa101 4y agoAnd nothing is lost... Good riddance...
- rvz 4y agoFor the EU to really care about privacy they should go a step further and also include and ban TikTok in Europe over the same 'privacy concerns' since that is far worse than Meta. Might as well go after that before the problem becomes even worse than it already is. It has been known that like Meta, TikTok abuses the privacy of its own users for the benefit of its so-called and worshipped 'recommendation algorithm'.
- nudpiedo 4y agoBut each case is judge with independence of each other, Meta was first warned, then fined, now it has an ultimatum. Next comes google.
- rvz 4y agoMeta, and Google have already been fined in the billions for privacy violations; telling us that no-one can get away with it, doesn't matter if it is in the EU or in the US. TikTok is getting scrutinised and having state-level bans in the US and is already getting their warnings and being in the cross-hairs of the regulators in the EU. [0] Next, TikTok will face hundreds of millions of dollars worth of fines and if repeated it will be in the billions. [0] https://www.reuters.com/technology/comply-with-eu-rules-or-face-ban-breton-tells-tiktok-ceo-2023-01-19/ https://www.reuters.com/technology/comply-with-eu-rules-or-f...
- justinclift 4y ago> have already been fined in the billions for privacy violations And all they've done in response is bring out their lawyers to argue about it, plus release PR to claim the high ground. Let me know when there's fundamental improvements in these companies from this. I'll wait...
- fxtentacle 4y agoAmazing! Like this, the privacy laws will also reduce depression as an unintended side effect ;)
- entropyie 4y agoEurope here: bring it on!
- jacooper 4y ago> A new transatlantic data deal is being finalized and is expected to come before the summer. But that could be too late, as it would leave Meta without a proper legal basis to transfers data it holds on Europeans in between the regulators' decision and the new deal coming into effect. If its even legal, because Schrems isn't going to back down any time soon.
- out-of-ideas 4y agowow lucky; "don't threaten me with a good time" now do it to the states!