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How can a corporation be furious? After reading the article, they don't say anything about the company or people inside the company being furious. The closest thing I could find is that a Meta spokesperson said they plan to fight it vigorously and expect to win. Maybe the headline should be "Meta opposed to proposed FTC ban on monetizing youth data".
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The headline here is the government of the United States has alleged that Meta has violated an existing privacy order severely enough that they should not be allowed to retain data on children at all, that they've lied to parents about what they are doing with their kids data, and that bugs or mistakenly applied product features had enabled kids to message with strangers despite promises that the product was not able…
Headlines are often determined by SEO/engagement folks rather than the actual writers, unfortunately.
How come FTC keeps coming back at this one company? Whereas TikTok and others having business as normal
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Or it was lobbied for by a competitor.
So? People lobby for all sorts of stuff. The existence of lobbyists doesn’t tell you if a proposed policy is good or bad.
How come FTC keeps coming back at this one company? Whereas TikTok and others having business as normal
Breaking things was a core mantra of theirs for a while, right?
It was, but they could not then move fast enough to escape the law.
How can a corporation be furious? After reading the article, they don't say anything about the company or people inside the company being furious. The closest thing I could find is that a Meta spokesperson said they plan to fight it vigorously and expect to win. Maybe the headline should be "Meta opposed to proposed FTC ban on monetizing youth data".
Mark Zuckerberg himself seems to understand the importance of privacy very well, taping over the microphone and camera on his MacBook Pro, keeping his trash can from being scavenged by others, and FB spending heavily to protect his security, so why does he have the exact opposite attitude towards others?
He isn’t forcing you to use Facebook. If you go into a store and they have a security camera that records you is that also violating your privacy? Not saying everything FB does is ok but I think we are going too crazy with the government intervention. I don’t exactly see that FB was committing deliberate fraud based on this latest report (but a lot is redacted). It seems more like there were just some bugs? As a dev…
A closed circuit camera system that exists for the purpose of helping to prevent or resolve any criminal issues and is otherwise not used for anything else is far different from tracking non-FB users (eg, "he isn't forcing you to use Facebook") and profiling them via trackers embedded on websites that you may use even without a FB account.
How come FTC keeps coming back at this one company? Whereas TikTok and others having business as normal
Well, FB does have ~2BB euros set aside to pay for EU fines in 2023. So not just the FTC!