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Re:If a $5B Fine Is Chump Change, How Do You Punish Facebook? by delusional on Saturday April 27, 2019 @11:19AM (#19765951)
Facebook is a strange beast when it comes to privacy. According to themselves, they have what amounts to hidden profiles for people who aren't part of Facebook. In other words, they track you and try to learn about you, even if you actively avoid them.

So you can "not use Facebook", but you can't not BE used by Facebook. Which means you also can't dismiss them as a choice. They are imposing themselves on you, whether you like them or not.

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Re:If a $5B Fine Is Chump Change, How Do You Punish Facebook? by nostrademons on Saturday April 27, 2019 @12:08PM (#19766191)
Most of the privacy-violating industry works the same way, they're just better at keeping it out of the news. The NSA, the FBI, all 3 major credit-reporting bureaus, any security company with CCTVs, Google, ad-trackers, 23andMe, anyone who buys or sells your mailing address - they all keep data about you whether or not you have chosen to allow them or have any business relationship with you at all.
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Re:If a $5B Fine Is Chump Change, How Do You Punish Facebook? by 6gvONxR4sf7o on Saturday April 27, 2019 @01:08PM (#19766492)
It should all be shut down down. Some kind of reasonable privacy should be a right.
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Re:If a $5B Fine Is Chump Change, How Do You Punish Facebook? by s_y_n_t_a_x on Saturday April 27, 2019 @12:09PM (#19766202)
Not to defend FB, but many trackers by companies work this way. They build an anonymous profile based on device fingerprint and then merge it if you sign in as a user.
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