Messenger API Updates for Europe
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Messenger API Updates for Europe
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Re: Messenger API Updates for Europe
#2How do people here feel about these changes?
I've the initial impression that this will be a good step for reducing the drift of user content into other websites and spaces where messages or user data may end up outside of the context for which it was generated.
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#3What are they claiming is motivating this change?
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#4What are they claiming is motivating this change?
> As part of our efforts to comply with new privacy rules in Europe
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#7Great news!
Less so for Switzerland? Because this does not seem to apply to Switzerland, which has signed the EEA agreement, but did not join.
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#8So instead of making their system less-privacy-invasive (which I have seen no indication should be impossible wrt the APIs mentioned here), they just shut down services where this is regulated.
Not surprised, but there's no way to spin this in a way that doesn't make Facebook look shady and bad. So much for "working with regulators".
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#9While Messenger is linked to our Facebook account state, where you can be arbitrarily banned for any reason without any accountability or recourse, the idea of relying on Messenger as a communcations app is an absurd proposition.
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#10I guess, for GDPR purposes, they would need to show why they can't provide the service without privacy invasion.