Dear Zuckerberg, We're writing to urge you to cancel Instagram for children [pdf]

Re:Dear Zuckerberg, We're writing to urge you to cancel Inst... by datavirtue on Friday April 16, 2021 @02:53PM (#26837661)

" I imagine there are a number of parents not savvy enough to know how to lock these things down."

I recently decided to start using Netgear's parental controls (after many years of ignoring it) on our wifi router and found that they discontinued it due to a lack of use.

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Re:Dear Zuckerberg, We're writing to urge you to cancel Inst... by nitrogen on Friday April 16, 2021 @03:00PM (#26837757)

discontinued it due to a lack of use.

...wait, how would they know it wasn't being used, unless they were also spying on your router?

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Re:Dear Zuckerberg, We're writing to urge you to cancel Inst... by sodality2 on Friday April 16, 2021 @03:10PM (#26837869)

Spying has very negative connotations, it's just analytics on what features are enabled or possibly based on traffic of the parental control blocklists. Spying is a harsh term to use. More like snooping

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Re:Dear Zuckerberg, We're writing to urge you to cancel Inst... by reaperducer on Friday April 16, 2021 @03:20PM (#26837988)

We put snoopers in jail.

"I wasn't looking in your child's bedroom window for bad reasons. I was just gathering telemetry and analytics."

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Re:Dear Zuckerberg, We're writing to urge you to cancel Inst... by sodality2 on Friday April 16, 2021 @06:09PM (#26839597)

If you genuinely don't see the difference between spying on a child and determining which features are more used to better allocate developers, I'm sorry.

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Re:Dear Zuckerberg, We're writing to urge you to cancel Inst... by mixmastamyk on Friday April 16, 2021 @08:55PM (#26840704)

There’s no difference these days. Just search up youtube kids lawsuits for an eye opener.

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Re:Dear Zuckerberg, We're writing to urge you to cancel Inst... by sodality2 on Friday April 16, 2021 @09:34PM (#26840886)

I still do not see how collecting a simple yes or no for whether a feature is enabled is at all related to spying on kids, even collecting their data. it is not browsing habits. It is just on or off

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Re:Dear Zuckerberg, We're writing to urge you to cancel Inst... by mixmastamyk on Monday April 19, 2021 @03:04AM (#26859837)

Because once the data collection starts it only grows, it never gets smaller. They also never just grab a few flags but everything the environment allows them to take and employ "growth hackers" to find more.

When new employees walk in, any moral conviction that existed in the first implementation takes its leave.

Honestly, given the near certainty and repetition of history, your disbelief comes off as naivete.

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Re:Dear Zuckerberg, We're writing to urge you to cancel Inst... by sodality2 on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @07:42AM (#26873287)

And when that happens, you can complain. But until then, I think it's widely considered okay to collect small amounts of data (literally a single bit) on which features are enabled, so features can be better worked on. Firefox does it by default for example.

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Re:Dear Zuckerberg, We're writing to urge you to cancel Inst... by mixmastamyk on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @03:46PM (#26894496)

Complaining doesn't help when your data has already been bought and sold by ten different brokers.

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Re:Dear Zuckerberg, We're writing to urge you to cancel Inst... by sodality2 on Monday April 26, 2021 @10:23AM (#26942802)

And I'm a strong supporter of privacy. Collecting statistics on whether or not you enable a feature is basically universal. Use DDWRT, I do.

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Re:Dear Zuckerberg, We're writing to urge you to cancel Inst... by datavirtue on Friday April 16, 2021 @05:38PM (#26839356)

Wondering why this shit community is down voting this comment. It is a relevent observation about an extremely common device and service related to the topic. Wtf

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