EU data regulator bans personalised advertising on Facebook and Instagram

Post by chroma » Thu, Nov 02, 2023, 3:06 PM UTC

vharuck wrote: post #158

pembrook wrote: post #134

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> the government is the solution to when business gets too much power. I totally agree with this. But are personalized Facebook ads really an example of this? And what's the solution when the government gets too much power? Especially in a "democracy," when the people have implicitly given approval for this by voting in the people who are attempting to consolidate power?

>And what's the solution when the government gets too much power? Elections and courts. Compared to private entities, the government is very restricted in what it can do. When a company says, "We won't share your data with anyone," there's nothing you can do when they change their mind. But you can sue the government for damages.

Post by tsukikage » Thu, Nov 02, 2023, 3:06 PM UTC

dr_dshiv wrote: post #122

mjburgess wrote: post #90

Comments here so far focus on personalised ads as the issue -- but that's a symptom of what's being banned, which is the mass collection of personal data. Personalised ads are beside the point. The issue is how they are personalised, namely by building a rich profile of user behaviour based on non-consensual tracking. It isnt even clear that there's a meaningful sense of 'consent' to what modern ad companies (ie., go…

Why should it be illegal? I don’t understand the moral threat. Personally I feel that privacy gets too much airtime as a value — I see lots of other more direct issues (like political manipulation) that will remain an issue even with “strong privacy.”

Post by alexvitkov » Thu, Nov 02, 2023, 3:07 PM UTC

giancarlostoro wrote: post #313

mjburgess wrote: post #90

Comments here so far focus on personalised ads as the issue -- but that's a symptom of what's being banned, which is the mass collection of personal data. Personalised ads are beside the point. The issue is how they are personalised, namely by building a rich profile of user behaviour based on non-consensual tracking. It isnt even clear that there's a meaningful sense of 'consent' to what modern ad companies (ie., go…

> increasingly microsoft Will the EU fix Windows by banning the insane amount of tracking they do? Would be nice. The OS is literally at its peak in terms of being great, but all the telemetry, forced accounts and Microsoft ads keep the meme alive that Windows is awful, when in fact, if you remove those three things I mentioned, you have an insanely reliable and polished OS, all my issues with Windows have always com…

Post by Eridrus » Thu, Nov 02, 2023, 3:08 PM UTC

gpvos wrote: post #265

Eridrus wrote: post #257

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Do you have any evidence of an actual harm being inflicted on a meaningful amount of people that would be sufficient to shutdown such a large amount of economic activity?

Cambridge Analytica.

Post by xigoi » Thu, Nov 02, 2023, 3:09 PM UTC

vasdae wrote: post #320

xigoi wrote: post #293

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You can avoid the services of Google and Facebook, but you can't avoid their tracking. Every other website you browse will let them know and your family and friends will happily tell them about you.

Of course I can, I can use ublock or pihole or whatever.