Re:Why Facebook still seems to spy on you
by olivermarks on Sunday March 03, 2019 @04:28AM
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The regulatory restrictions conundrum is tricky, because where the military industrial complex/deep state/5 eyes etc ends and Google/Amazon/FB/Insta/Whatsapp/ Netflix begins is very unclear.
Any sort of political regulation could well just be a fig leaf over this as the snooping tech gets ever more sophisticated...
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Re:Why Facebook still seems to spy on you
by HenryBemis on Sunday March 03, 2019 @05:13AM
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As long as FB and the other big players serve ANY information to ANY government on this planet there will NEVER be a regulatory intervention. With the current setup the price of the State is that they commonly violate the privacy that the users have volunteered by using such servicss.
The moment FB stops collecting it will be the moment that FB stops handing in our info to govs. Govs are somehow in this loop.
Re:Why Facebook still seems to spy on you
by olivermarks on Sunday March 03, 2019 @06:21AM
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I suspect we are on the cusp of a next generation of snooping social networks, and that FB will be sunsetted to make way for more sophisticated signals intelligence gathering platforms.