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What really interests me is the lack of scrutiny towards Google. It all seems focused on Facebook, meanwhile what Facebook did was set a trend that others followed. Hopefully there is more to come, but it is definitely too little too late.
Whataboutism?
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I'm sure someone must pay. But I can make assumptions all by myself with little to no help. What I could really use are details, facts, evidence. So I'm forced to reiterate, care to provide some? I don't mean evidence that people want more privacy and someone is paying/putting up billboards advocating this. Do you have some evidence ( anything ) that these yet unnamed companies are behind a strategy to stain FB's ima…
An example from the street of a major German city: https://i.imgur.com/owlT9Rv.jpg I have absolutely no insight into any lobbying activities, obviously.
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I'm sure someone must pay. But I can make assumptions all by myself with little to no help. What I could really use are details, facts, evidence. So I'm forced to reiterate, care to provide some? I don't mean evidence that people want more privacy and someone is paying/putting up billboards advocating this. Do you have some evidence ( anything ) that these yet unnamed companies are behind a strategy to stain FB's ima…
An example from the street of a major German city: https://i.imgur.com/owlT9Rv.jpg I have absolutely no insight into any lobbying activities, obviously.
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> Now Facebook does it's mix-and-mash anyways. Did they? I thought it was just under discussion.
They have been doing it to a smaller extent outside the EU, with contacts data being shared between WhatsApp and Facebook. Therefore if you have the Facebook app installed as well as WhatsApp, every contact in Facebook and WhatsApp will be integrated as best as possible.
Obviously frustrating for non-EU citizens but the only thing helping here will be more GDPR-like laws across the globe. If enough nations enact regulation like this, it'll be cheaper for a company to follow it globally.
What about Google? (With their Adsense, analytics, email, search ... setup ...)
I hope Google will also be one day forced to use permissions on per app and per service base. If I want to give Google Maps access to my location it means only Maps and for limited scope not all across Google ecosystem. Android is constantly nagging me to turn on location and wifi scanning for example to use Google Home. It doesn't make sense - they could use SSID of my home wifi to make sure that I am home. Where my…