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Deeply unattractive business environment for companies exploiting people's personal data without their consent? Good.
You can stop using Facebook if you want to
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Deeply unattractive business environment for companies exploiting people's personal data without their consent? Good.
If you volunteer your data to Facebook I have a hard time considering you to have been “exploited.”
If the appeal doesn't go Facebook's way, what is the resolution to this? It sounds like they'll just have to update their terms of service to say that you agree to allow Facebook to use your data in XYZ ways. Of course, that'll be buried in the fine print and no-one will even notice.
> It sounds like they'll just have to update their terms of service to say that you agree to allow Facebook to use your data in XYZ ways. Of course, that'll be buried in the fine print and no-one will even notice. If you read the first paragraph of the article, you'll notice that that is in fact the thing that the court is talking about: the degree of consent created by their terms of service process is deemed insuff…
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Deeply unattractive business environment for companies exploiting people's personal data without their consent? Good.
If you volunteer your data to Facebook I have a hard time considering you to have been “exploited.”
Further, I fail to see why "voluntering" it is relevant at all.
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>A lot of Germans use Fb with a fake name anyway To FB the fake name is only yet another datapoint connected to your identity. Make no mistake, they know who you are and what you did last summer, and can pretty much predict what you will do next summer as well. Or worse, influence what you will do.
You can hide from your your boss, your wife, or even your mother, but you can’t hide from Facebook.
Wait until GDPR is in place in May and German and other EU courts will rule FB to death. IDK how FB will ever be compliant with GDPR and survive that huge upcoming fines in the long term or in the worst case the withdrawal from these markets.
Here is a list of countries with the most Facebook users: https://www.statista.com/statistics/268136/top-15-countries-... The first EU country is #10, and it won't even be an EU country in a few years. I think Facebook would survive leaving the EU market just fine. I'm sure they really, really don't want to, but they could. Edit: updated link