this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2023
74 points (95.1% liked)

Technology

59449 readers
3574 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
L3s
[email protected]
[email protected]
L4s
enu
74
[EFF] Facebook Apparently Will Ask for Consent Before Showing Behavioral Ads to Some Users (www.eff.org)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/technology
6 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Summary:

  • EFF has long argued that companies should not be allowed to collect and process private behavioral data without opt-in consent from users.
  • Meta, one of the largest collectors of behavioral data in the world, has announced that it will change the legal basis for its behavioral advertising in the EU, EEA, and Switzerland from "legitimate interests" to "consent."
  • Meta has a history of trying to circumvent privacy laws, and it is not clear how the company will implement this change.
  • Meta's announcement came after recent court interpretations of the GDPR, as well as the incoming Digital Markets Act (DMA).
  • The GDPR requires companies to obtain opt-in consent to collect, retain, disclose, or use a person's data.
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Mark Zuckerberg is the least likely human on earth to be able to obtain consent. To paraphrase Chris Rock he created Facebook just to get friends after someone smacked him with a book.

https://piped.video/watch?v=MlJrXq0BMJo

How do I summon that utube redirect bot?

Edit: The bot is automatic.

[–] Chalky_Pockets 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And as soon as he created Facebook, he used it to spy on his fellow students without their consent.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A direct quote, "They trust me — dumb fucks"

Edit: which I guess contradicts my original statement.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=MlJrXq0BMJo

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.