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Re:Meta Fined $1.3B Over Data Transfers to U.S. by loeg on Monday May 22, 2023 @12:13PM (#36033291)
Your guess is wildly mistaken. They did not intend to sell data to CA; and the CA events happened in 2014-2015 and the program CA abused was subsequently shut down.
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Re:Meta Fined $1.3B Over Data Transfers to U.S. by ndsipa_pomu on Monday May 22, 2023 @01:06PM (#36033957)
To my mind that could be explained as CA exploiting Facebook users' data and Facebook shut down that program so that it could instead explicitly sell similar datasets.
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Re:Meta Fined $1.3B Over Data Transfers to U.S. by loeg on Monday May 22, 2023 @01:43PM (#36034370)
Well, you're wildly mistaken again. The dataset is the golden goose -- they have no interest or incentive to sell it.
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