NO. REALLY?
I like that someone in a position of authority is talking about this.
Kahn!
Don’t forget their 1427 trusted data partners!
Essential.
But it’s their legitimate interest! ^Whatever ^that ^means
It is fine to have casual knowledge of or a hunch about something, but far better to have the research and analysis to prove it.
Remember, when Western companies violate privacy that is okay.
When non-Western companies do it, that’s bad.
I disagree. It’s bad when anyone does it.
So this is why I switched to the fediverse. But to be honest, I have no idea if someone does things like that here or not. All my posts are public to everyone and machine readable. The only thing which would prevent someone of survailing users on the fediverse is it’s very small scale. It is probably just not worth the effort.
This is why I’m slowly migrating to the Fediverse.
Fuck social media companies.
Well, the Fediverse isn’t any more private, but at least it doesn’t care much about your data. That said, any company could come and harvest all of that data if it wanted since it’s open.
The Fediverse isn’t the final step here.
I understand that, but it’s more about the targeted advertisements, sponsored posts, etc. Just give me my goddamn content and leave me alone LOL
We’re watching you too.
Yep, all they gotta do is well, very little.
Gotta wonder why they’re saying this now? What’s the agenda?
Getting as much done as they can before the election in case Trump wins, I think
Have you considered that the answers you seek may be in the article?
The new-ish Federal Trade Commission head has been making a push to work on quite a few projects for the past couple of years. They have a very small resources and man-power compared to the war chests of multibillion dollar companies, but recently, somehow managed to bring charges against Google as a monopoly. This in my opinion is a good thing. I consider myself a social liberal and a fiscal conservative. I don’t like how our government seems to take the money of these companies and turn a blind eye as they do what they want in pursuit of the almighty dollar. I support her endeavors working for the interests of the majority of people and not those few with the most money.
I don’t like how our government seems to take the money of these companies and turn a blind eye as they do what they want in pursuit of the almighty dollar.
What country do you live in?
Because in the US, the government gives money to corpos. That’s how the entire regime works lol
Politicians take donations sure but that’s not the government. That’s private regime whores living off corporate cash while handing out state aid Boeing intel and tech companies among many other parasites.
Lina Khan actually takes action against companies unlike many of her predecessors.
Allow me to reveal my age by saying… No, duh!!!
Eat my shorts
NOT!!
And?
That’s literally the sales pitch to investors, and has been for decades.
In idiom meta for this scenario, most Lemmy users are what would be considered ‘the choir’
Rule #1: anybody who can get you to give them your information of likes, dislikes just about anything will sell it to other people, or use it for their own sales to you.
Rule #2: If anyone has any reason to make you accept terms and conditions and there’s any chance that they you may want to sue them in future, they’re going to slip in a binding arbitration clause unless it is legally difficult for them to do so.
Wake up FTC it’s not just social media it’s deeply embedded everywhere in commerce and society and it needs to be addressed RFN.
