Facebook’s tracking of non-users ruled illegal again in Europe

Re:Facebook’s tracking of non-users ruled illegal again in E... by mseebach on Monday March 05, 2018 @07:50AM (#16520669)

I don't think corruption is the worry so much here, it's the erosion of the rule of law when regulators and courts are seen to bask in the popularity of enforcing the law against certain high-profile targets, especially when the perception is that this target has been particularly zealously pursued, instead of dryly and boringly applying the law equally to everybody without passion.

That erosion is not corruption on its own, but can lead to it.

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Re:Facebook’s tracking of non-users ruled illegal again in E... by mykull on Monday March 05, 2018 @10:14AM (#16521537)

Facebook, being huge and hugely invasive, is among those doing the most damage to EU citizen privacy with their collection, so it makes plenty of sense to focus on them.

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Re:Facebook’s tracking of non-users ruled illegal again in E... by Feniks on Monday March 05, 2018 @09:21AM (#16521182)

Its quite normal in my opinion for the police to invest more resources in pursuing a kidnapping case than a bicycle theft.

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Re:Facebook’s tracking of non-users ruled illegal again in E... by manfredo on Monday March 05, 2018 @03:21PM (#16524026)

It'd be more like vigorously investigating a kidnapping case in a wealthy, high-profile neighborhood while ignoring kidnappings in other places.

Which, granted, is something that happens but people largely regard this kind of unequal protection of the law to be a bad thing.

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Re:Facebook’s tracking of non-users ruled illegal again in E... by geezerjay on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @03:40AM (#16527671)

> It'd be more like vigorously investigating a kidnapping case in a wealthy, high-profile neighborhood while ignoring kidnappings in other places.

I don't see the point of this sort of "but johnny did it too" line of argument. So authorities are looking into a report of widespread abuse. Where's the relevance of not advertising how they may or may not look into other small-scale and lower-profile cases? In fact, aren't resources better spent by going after the single largest and more eggregious source of abuse that has a global reach and has been continuously abusing its position for over a decade?

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Re:Facebook’s tracking of non-users ruled illegal again in E... by Feniks on Monday March 05, 2018 @04:51PM (#16524799)

By all means name all the social media sites that are breaking the law on this scale and the EU is ignoring. I'll be sure to contact my local ombudsman.

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