Meta unlawfully ignores the users' right to easily withdraw consent

Re:Meta unlawfully ignores the users' right to easily withdr... by happytiger on Thursday January 11, 2024 @07:43AM (#38951466)

Here here. Paying no longer protects anything. If anything, you’re more valuable as a data brokered account if you’re KYC verified as a real person: so in fact the opposite case is now often the reality.

Consider that paying makes you prime rib for Sunday dinner from a data perspective: card verified PII.

And do not forget that you can be assigned an ID and disassociated from your data, which can then be tracked anonymously completely legally as a non-personally identifiable account. And let me assure you de-anonymizing a collected dataset is often not a very difficult problem in the modern data brokerage filled era.

We cannot pay out way out of this. We need rights to privacy and deletion enshrined in constitutional-style law, and soon. It must become a fundamental human right.

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Re:Meta unlawfully ignores the users' right to easily withdr... by guappa on Thursday January 11, 2024 @08:16AM (#38951800)

*hear hear

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Re:Meta unlawfully ignores the users' right to easily withdr... by aspenmayer on Thursday January 11, 2024 @09:21AM (#38952483)

Thank you. The one that always bugs me on HN is folks “pouring” over something when they really mean poring, or to pore over something.

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Re:Meta unlawfully ignores the users' right to easily withdr... by GrinningFool on Thursday January 11, 2024 @11:46AM (#38954713)

Right up there with "weary" being used as an unintentional portmanteau of "leery" and "wary".

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Re:Meta unlawfully ignores the users' right to easily withdr... by dmoy on Thursday January 11, 2024 @12:50PM (#38955809)

Oh man, that explains a lot of my confusion. I've seen people say weary and I thought they actually meant weary. Like they were tired because of the thing. But it never scanned correctly, so I was just confused.

Now it makes sense - they meant wary / leery.

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Re:Meta unlawfully ignores the users' right to easily withdr... by aspenmayer on Thursday January 11, 2024 @02:35PM (#38957643)

Until they mentioned it, I wasn’t even aware of how many abuses of the English language lay in these hills. I’m spooked lol

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Re:Meta unlawfully ignores the users' right to easily withdr... by aspenmayer on Thursday January 11, 2024 @03:17PM (#38958360)

I don’t assume that people who don’t know how to use weary correctly are that clever, but perhaps you’re just more grammatically optimistic than I am.

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Re:Meta unlawfully ignores the users' right to easily withdr... by seanw444 on Thursday January 11, 2024 @10:06AM (#38953124)

I don't think I've ever seen that one done correctly.

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Re:Meta unlawfully ignores the users' right to easily withdr... by aspenmayer on Thursday January 11, 2024 @10:09AM (#38953166)

It’s pretty rare to find a good pour over too, but Peet’s does a decent one. /s

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Re:Meta unlawfully ignores the users' right to easily withdr... by MeImCounting on Thursday January 11, 2024 @12:04PM (#38955037)

OK but really if you want good coffee dont go to national corporate chains go to your local roaster is is passionate about good coffee. Always better.

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Re:Meta unlawfully ignores the users' right to easily withdr... by aspenmayer on Thursday January 11, 2024 @02:33PM (#38957599)

Naturally. I’m in full agreement.

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Re:Meta unlawfully ignores the users' right to easily withdr... by happytiger on Friday January 12, 2024 @05:55PM (#38975295)

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/ubjbvc/what_...

Indeed. A mistyped phrase missed by both my sleep addled self and my annoying spell checker.

Rather than be defenseive (fore I gaudere gehrehte), let’s reflect on this moment to enjoy the fact that “we have over two thousand years of records of old people claiming that language has already peaked.”

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Re:Meta unlawfully ignores the users' right to easily withdr... by HenryBemis on Thursday January 11, 2024 @08:51AM (#38952146)

This is 100% true. The problem is not paying or not. The problem is that tracking, collecting and selling your data is irrelevant to the Facebook few. They will still trade you as a cattle. The only difference is that you won't be flooded with ads (BM - 15MM - ads playing in full volume because you dared to look away)

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