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Thankfully EU legislation has very severe penalties built-in that are mostly deterrants (think the 4% turnover maximum GDPR fine), but if anyone deserves to be
by _cenw 3y ago
Thankfully EU legislation has very severe penalties built-in that are mostly deterrants (think the 4% turnover maximum GDPR fine), but if anyone deserves to be hit with the full force of the law, it's Apple.
Even Meta, who are also happy to rack up fines instead of fixing their privacy issues, aren't this reckless.
- benreesman 3y agoI’ve had my disagreements with Meta’s leadership (I quit after all) but they do try hard to comply with the law on privacy. It’s a hard, hard problem that they spend a lot of money on. The results have been mixed: they should probably spend even more. In general these are some of the “least evil” people in the valley. I have personal disputes with some of them, some mutually pretty unpleasant. But that increases, not decreases my responsibility to be fair. Bosworth in particular is about as close to a good guy as you can be in a job like that. I don’t think very highly about how I’ve been treated personally, but that’s irrelevant to the broader point: Meta’s team is playing at the “least rough” end of the field. They’re great on open models and research, their lobbying is at the low, low end of shady (by the dismal standards of the day), employees have historically been treated well, it’s less bad. If you want to get on them about something, the availability of Reels to minors needs to change.
- prmoustache 3y agoI wouldn't say they are the least evil, but they are working hard to lose that "bad actor" reputation they have been given over the year regarding privacy.
- benreesman 3y agoFair enough I guess from a terminology point of view. If you try to lose your bad actor reputation hard enough, at some point you’re “reforming”.