Facebook Is Going After Its Critics in the Name of Privacy

Re:Facebook Is Going After Its Critics in the Name of Privacy by bobthepanda on Sunday November 22, 2020 @02:23PM (#25180215)

NYU isn't collaborating with FB though. It's collaborating with FB users, who explicitly agree to do this.

Does FB get to dictate how its users get to share their own data?

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Re:Facebook Is Going After Its Critics in the Name of Privacy by djohnston on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @09:14AM (#25198569)

I would argue yes, particularly social media data. For one thing most interactions on these platforms involve at least two parties interacting. If one of these parties decides to send the transactions to a chrome extension, it seems they are making a decision unilaterally for all participants. Certainly if anyone is going to do that it will be the platform itself.

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