Facebook ordered to delete illegally collected data by Belgian court

Re:Facebook ordered to delete illegally collected data by Be... by ryandrake on Friday February 16, 2018 @12:55PM (#16394232)

Fine, so instead of Craigslist Guy, let's use Home Depot, where I shop often. Just shopping there does not imply my consent to them tracking where else I go and shop throughout my day. Merely having an account somewhere or regularly doing business somewhere should not imply consent to tracking and data collection, to which I must opt out.

ADD: I probably have 100+ accounts at various sites online. Do these guys all get free passes to collect data and track me because I happen to have created an account there?

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Re:Facebook ordered to delete illegally collected data by Be... by slededit on Friday February 16, 2018 @06:38PM (#16397621)

If you opened a credit account with Home Depot or had their loyalty card you'd be literally consenting to more tracking. That's the difference between an account and a one off transaction.

Facebook certainly operates outside of even this rather liberal framework so I wouldn't defend them wholesale. However I don't like false equivalencies.

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