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Meta won't train AI on Euro posts after all, as watchdogs put their paws down (www.theregister.com)

submitted 6 months ago by boem to c/technology

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[–] NeoNachtwaechter 76 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Laughable, how they put it.

data protection agencies in 11 European countries – and those agencies, led by Ireland, telling the Facebook giant to scrap the slurp.

They are making such a pathetic show about their own decision to observe the law.

And this is a law that is clearly and openly readable. You don't need legal experts to understand the basics, and you don't need any agencies telling you that you must observe it.

They are constantly giving the impression as if they were a gang of professional outlaws and only if somebody catches them redhanded, then they are able make a decision - one decision for one case, exceptipnally - to behave properly.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

They are the worst of the worst, and I will never use an instance that voluntarily federates with Threads. I respect MS more than Meta, and that's a pretty incredible feat on the part of Meta.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

MS is catching up tho. Imagine Facebook style OS lol can't escape the tracking ever

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Good thing I avoid them too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You mean like Android?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ya.. It can be de gogoled tbo

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sure, but my point was that you don't have to go far to imagine such a thing. It's been here for ages.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Touche.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Once electronics get cheap enough, FB will probably ship free devices with some fbOS spyware. Like how they’ll zero rate data if they’re allowed to in a given region.

Per our heroes at the EFF:

Such “pay for play” arrangements favor big content providers who can afford to pay for access to users' eyeballs, and marginalize those who can't, such as nonprofits, startups, and fellow users.