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Hopefully other states and countries sue them too. Facebook has taken massive liberties with our private data and they should be held accountable for it.
by CursedUrn 2y ago
Hopefully other states and countries sue them too. Facebook has taken massive liberties with our private data and they should be held accountable for it.
- kazinator 2y ago[flagged]
- crowcroft 2y agoCitation needed.
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- corney91 2y agoThat's not the same as consenting to Facebook using their data for whatever Facebook wants.
- kazinator 2y agoAnyone who clicks agree without reading and carefully interpreting every word of the terms of service is in fact consenting to almost anything. Almost anything you can think of could be there and you don't care. I mean even things which are not actually written in the TOS. If you don't know what's in the agreement, you're agreeing to almost anything in principle. The number of Facebook users who have actually read all the legal crap probably wouldn't fill a small lecture hall.
- tumult 2y agoThis affected people who never even used Facebook. It would tag and track your presence in photos even if you had no Facebook account.
- 1oooqooq 2y agothis is the core Facebook (and google et al) business model whatsapp and google system apps scan your contact list every two seconds (not hyperbole) and send the diff to their servers. if you are in someone's phonebook, you're very well cataloged on their systems. and those contact entries tie phone, email, name, other grouping, association list by crossing lists, address, aliases, etc. they have to claim they don't map those identities for ad targeting, but everything else they can claim you "asked for it" like suggesting new contacts to add is fair game.
- qingcharles 2y agoThey already did. They settled this same kind of suit in Illinois a couple of years back and paid everyone a few hundreds dollars piece. Google too.
- burningChrome 2y agoThis is always my frustration with class action lawsuits. The people who've been affected by the company never get anything of value. Its always the attorney's and state that started the suits that make all the money. The worst was back in the day when Chevy used some bogus primer for their trucks. They refused to say it was their fault owners paint was coming off their trucks sans any rust. A class action was started and then over the course of several years, the government and owners finally won. What did the owners get? Coupons for $100 off a paint job at the local Chevy dealer. So not only did the owners not get anything to help them fix their problems, they were forwarded to a local dealership where the dealership could then take advantage of them again and charge them thousands of dollars and essentially make all the money back they were paying the attorney's and government.
- twodave 2y agoIf you have damages that are worth more, then you can excuse yourself from the class and sue them individually.
- knodi123 2y ago> Facebook has taken massive liberties with our private data Gotta remember the quote from Zuckerberg during the early days, when someone asked him how he got all that private data. He said, and I quote, "People just submitted it. I don't know why. They 'trust me'. Dumb fucks."
- minklebottom 2y agoI despise Facebook, but this is absurd. There's no world in which there was 1.4b of harm done to Texans. This is no better than theft, and it will be defended exclusively by people who have never created a single thing of value in their entire lives.
- awahab92 2y ago[flagged]
- chrischen 2y agoA lot of our profile pics are actually public, and models like OpenAI's probably ingested those too.