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These data transfer laws are stupid and anti-internet. If you don’t want to give your data to facebook, then don’t give your data to facebook.
by steve_taylor 3y ago
These data transfer laws are stupid and anti-internet. If you don’t want to give your data to facebook, then don’t give your data to facebook.
- xtracto 3y agoI miss the 90s internet so badly... reminds me of the old bad taste joke: I'm Not Saying Let's Go Kill All The Stupid People… I'm Just Saying Let’s Remove All The Warning Labels And Let The Problem Sort Itself Out.
- ktosobcy 3y agoof ffs... sometimes is virtually impossible to do so because (at least even recently) some companies virtually allowed communication only over social media (one example KLM pushed very hard to contact with them over facebook/whatsapp) :/ The tight regulation and privacy rules enforcements of those leviathans are _essential_
- zelphirkalt 3y agoMaybe there should be some kind of quality seal for online services. As long as a service has not managed to comply with the law for an extended period of time companies are not allowed to harass their users into using those services. If they still do it, they also get their quality seal removed, with all the implications that come with that.
- ktosobcy 3y agoIt doesn't have to be "quality seal" just "make user being able contact you via open-protocols... e-mail, contact form on the page, in-page chat option, voila.
- Attrecomet 3y agoUS laws and executive orders are the actual anti-internet culprits here. Until the US recognizes that non-citizens also have rights, and they can't just do whatever with them, the EU MUST fight for their own citizens' rights. Anything else would be a rank betrayal.
- JohnMakin 3y agoI don't have a facebook account. Yet, my personal health information was shared to FB via an API that my health application was using. Not only this, meta will face zero consequences for this and freely use/sell this data.