Re:FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization
by monetus on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @07:40PM
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If your friend isn't a user of the company to which the data is exported, then maybe that friend's data could be served from FB's servers, or your own, and only decypted client side. This of course cuts them off from being able to monetize swaths of user data which isn't unilaterally owned by one user, but it would be privacy respecting to your friend wouldn't it? Open protocols with medical-data like regulation right?
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Re:FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization
by squeaky-clean on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @09:01PM
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What's to prevent the other company from simply saving the user data which is decrypted by their client? You think Cambridge-Analytica didn't store offline backups of all the data they gathered from the Facebook graph APIs?
Re:FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization
by monetus on Thursday December 10, 2020 @08:53PM
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When I wrote that, I was thinking of a dns-over-https like system and browsers being the client. You're right. A company could pipe the data back to their servers even if it was only decrypted on the user's device and it was illegal.