FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization

Re:FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization by zepto on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @07:18PM (#25367614)

By ‘used for’, I don’t mean that people might display the photo somewhere you didn’t want.

I mean Facebook might perform facial recognition on your photos and infer connections to other people you didn’t explicitly tell them about.

I mean that facebook might track your location and app launches and identify where you go on vacation and when you shop.

These are the kinds of thing nobody gave consent for.

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Re:FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization by vladmk on Sunday December 13, 2020 @11:30PM (#25413571)

I mean this has and is already happening. Example a foster kid was suggested to be friends with his father, in some cases it’s great, two long lost siblings or parents/children’s reunited. In other cases people complain.

The consent thing can both be good and bad, just like the invention of the internet and electricity before that. I’m trying to make that point that giving away your data is gonna be a commodity once everyone realizes they’re not a special snowflake

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