Belgium Tells Facebook to Stop Storing Personal Data from Non-Users
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Re: Belgium Tells Facebook to Stop Storing Personal Data from Non-Users
#2Good.
Re: Belgium Tells Facebook to Stop Storing Personal Data from Non-Users
#3What I find hilarious is that besides this being like the 4th or 5th time Facebook got caught with this sort of tracking [1], and each time claiming it's "only a bug" - which it also did when it got caught in Belgium this spring [2] - it now comes and says "Wait a minute! We've been using this umm...bug...for 5 years! We will appeal the ruling! We want to keep using that...umm, bug." [3]
> The company is “working to minimize any disruption to people’s access to Facebook in Belgium,” she said.
Is that a threat? Why would there be a disruption? The ruling only affects their tracking of non-users. Disruption to the non-users?!
Also, you know how they've also been saying for years that they would never (ever!) use Like button tracking (which is just a - pretty damn persistent - bug when tracking non-users, anyway) for advertising? Yeah, another lie [4].
[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/its-complicated-facebooks...
[2] http://www.itpro.co.uk/security/24324/facebook-okay-were-tra...
[3] http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/09/us-facebook-belgiu...
[4] http://www.technologyreview.com/news/541351/facebooks-like-b...
Re: Belgium Tells Facebook to Stop Storing Personal Data from Non-Users
#4>Facebook faces a fine of 250,000 euros ($269,000) a day
Facebook's net income in 2014 was US$2.94 billion, according to Wikipedia. I'm not so sure they will care about a fine that low. Especially if they expect to make more money by continuing to store non-users' personal data.
Re: Belgium Tells Facebook to Stop Storing Personal Data from Non-Users
#5Good. But, I expect something unfortunate to happen to a high profile Belgian company or official in the near future.
Of course, there's going to be no way for anyone to prove cause and effect either way. If I'm wrong about the reason, my confirmation bias will convince me otherwise.
Re: Belgium Tells Facebook to Stop Storing Personal Data from Non-Users
#6>Facebook faces a fine of 250,000 euros ($269,000) a day Facebook's net income in 2014 was US$2.94 billion, according to Wikipedia. I'm not so sure they will care about a fine that low. Especially if they expect to make more money by continuing to store non-users' personal data.
Meh, $94MM a year is still probably not worth it just to store non-users data from Belgium.
Re: Belgium Tells Facebook to Stop Storing Personal Data from Non-Users
#7>Facebook faces a fine of 250,000 euros ($269,000) a day Facebook's net income in 2014 was US$2.94 billion, according to Wikipedia. I'm not so sure they will care about a fine that low. Especially if they expect to make more money by continuing to store non-users' personal data.
Do you think that data is worth 91M euros/98M USD a year? I don't, and I doubt Facebook (or its investors) do either. That's a strong opening salvo.
Re: Belgium Tells Facebook to Stop Storing Personal Data from Non-Users
#8How about not singling out FB and forbid the same to Google and others as well?
Re: Belgium Tells Facebook to Stop Storing Personal Data from Non-Users
#9How about not singling out FB and forbid the same to Google and others as well?
Hopefully they do, but you gotta start somewhere...
Re: Belgium Tells Facebook to Stop Storing Personal Data from Non-Users
#10How about not singling out FB and forbid the same to Google and others as well?
Like in their search engine indexes? The EU has been attacking that for a couple of years now.