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Norway’s Privacy Battle With Meta Is Just Getting Started (www.wired.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Norway: Stop collecting user data to sell and using it to serve adds!

FB: OK. You can now be add free for 10 euros a month.

Norway: Are you still collecting and selling user data with that plan?

FB: ...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

They will collect and use (and not directly sell) to create training sets for neural nets, and then they can sell access to those neural nets for the purposes of ad targeting.

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