Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

EU data regulator bans personalised advertising on Facebook and Instagram

reuters.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

621–630 of 765 posts

Re: EU data regulator bans personalised advertising on Facebook and Instagram

#621

Post by erinnh »

sharemywin wrote: post #615
timeon wrote: post #604

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> For instance, he said, consent would have to be freely given, which wouldn't be the case if existing users had to choose between giving up their privacy rights or paying a financial penalty in the form of a subscription. This is already present in EU. Spiegel.de and others are like that. Pay or be tracked.

exactly facebook(US company) illegal, EU companies legal. let's not kid ourselves on how these dog and pony shows work.

The practice has been very controversial in the EU ever since GDPR took effect.

It’s simply that nobody has been sued to the end for it yet.

Re: EU data regulator bans personalised advertising on Facebook and Instagram

#622

Post by Zanni »

geek_at wrote: post #608
latexr wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They could still show ads without all the invasiveness. For example: advertisers could pay to place ads in specific Facebook groups and they would show to people visiting those pages. Like it has been done for decades in magazines and other physical media. The internet did not invent advertising.

exactly and even if they didn't take "personalized data" into account, they can still serve you ads based on pages/profiles you liked

That's exactly what's being banned. Pages and profiles you like (along with other personal data) is what drives "behavioral advertising."

Re: EU data regulator bans personalised advertising on Facebook and Instagram

#624

Post by highwind »

alkonaut wrote: post #515
jerrac wrote: post #272

I would love to see a regulation put in place requiring companies to notify their users every time they transfer data about their users to another organization. If the data is "anonymized", the company should have to notify all their users. If the company has contact info for the user, it should send the user a notification via that contact info. Even if that means having to send a physical letter. The company should…

Why would anyone worry about anonymized data? That bit sounds strange. If it’s truly anonymous then how can there be harm in it? E.g would a site telling its owner they had 400 unique users (an anonymous piece of data since it’s an aggregate) have to notify its 400 users they were counted?

> Why would anyone worry about anonymized data?

I guess company wouldn't care, but I'd like to know if statistics that I'm part of is now also owned by someone else. I don't know why but it'll be nice to know.

Re: EU data regulator bans personalised advertising on Facebook and Instagram

#625

Post by pgeorgi »

mrweasel wrote: post #71

Is there a reason as to why this is "on Facebook and Instagram" and not just a general ban on personalised advertising? Is there something specific that Meta does that others don't?

1. Regulators can't do sweeping statements, so it's individual assessments (that can inform "similar" cases).

2. Facebook and Instagram are household names, so the media picks up on that.

3. The DPA/Meta situation is going on for a couple of years by now, with rather interesting statements at times (e.g. Meta thinking aloud about ceasing operation in the EU)

Re: EU data regulator bans personalised advertising on Facebook and Instagram

#626

Post by outside1234 »

leksak wrote: post #5

> Meta has stated that it had already announced plans to provide users in the EU and EEA with an opportunity to provide consent and will introduce a subscription model in November to comply with regulatory requirements This effectively means then that if you are in the EU and you'd want to use either Facebook or Instagram you'd have to pay for a subscription then because they presumably won't offer the free-service w…

I thought it was illegal to only offer the privacy service through paying for it?

Re: EU data regulator bans personalised advertising on Facebook and Instagram

#628

Post by neaumusic »

sharemywin wrote: post #615
timeon wrote: post #604

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> For instance, he said, consent would have to be freely given, which wouldn't be the case if existing users had to choose between giving up their privacy rights or paying a financial penalty in the form of a subscription. This is already present in EU. Spiegel.de and others are like that. Pay or be tracked.

exactly facebook(US company) illegal, EU companies legal. let's not kid ourselves on how these dog and pony shows work.

this is similar to tiktok getting banned because the data doesnt reside in the US anymore, meanwhile the NSA has unrestricted access and data privacy doesn't apply to foreigners (we can snoop on anybody who's not a US citizen). honestly private data should be illegal, public behavioral data should be public, and censorship is always wrong
Post reply on HN