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I'm regularly called paranoid when I express my utter refusal to connect with people on WhatsApp. I've been touting this since the Cambridge Analytica thing came to light. Then subsequently, after the WhatsApp devs sold to Facebook and left shortly afterwards as they were offended by Facebooks breach of customer protection that WhatsApp was foundationally built to protect, those same devs were the ones that built Signal.
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Signal was quite janky up until even a few years ago, it was very basic. It's come a long way. I would strongly urge people to consider their use of any Meta product, even in a browser, the cross tracking they are able to do (unless you're using a privacy focused browser like Brave) is incredibly revealing.
Looks like they've been found out yet again for blatant breach of consumer privacy, but this time, there's absolutely no way they can spin this, the amount of development time and engineering that has had to go into this, it's obvious they've set aside significant resources to make this happen.
In 2016 Facebook received the largest ever fine issued to a company at that time for their Cambridge Analytica ILLEGAL data sale. A lot of people this this was a free exchange, that's utterly untrue, it was an illegal and collaborated back door access given to Cambridge Analytica, they could harvest anything hosted on the platform.
Since then they've been fined every few months for selling private data they have no right to, but the monetary amounts haven't been significant enough to dissuade them.
It looks like this time, with yet another record fine, that may be a little different, $32 Billion will actually hurt them at an operational level, and may actually make them reconsider these kinds of illegitimate practices
lifehacker.com
www.zeropartydata.es
We can only hope. But excellent work by EU, and I hope this isn't a one off as people like Google and Microsoft are doing similar practices regularly
Former WhatsApp exec regrets selling the app to Facebook
Former WhatsApp executive Neeraj Arora wrote a twitter thread about why he regretted selling the app to Facebook.
thenextweb.com
Signal was quite janky up until even a few years ago, it was very basic. It's come a long way. I would strongly urge people to consider their use of any Meta product, even in a browser, the cross tracking they are able to do (unless you're using a privacy focused browser like Brave) is incredibly revealing.
Looks like they've been found out yet again for blatant breach of consumer privacy, but this time, there's absolutely no way they can spin this, the amount of development time and engineering that has had to go into this, it's obvious they've set aside significant resources to make this happen.
In 2016 Facebook received the largest ever fine issued to a company at that time for their Cambridge Analytica ILLEGAL data sale. A lot of people this this was a free exchange, that's utterly untrue, it was an illegal and collaborated back door access given to Cambridge Analytica, they could harvest anything hosted on the platform.
Since then they've been fined every few months for selling private data they have no right to, but the monetary amounts haven't been significant enough to dissuade them.
It looks like this time, with yet another record fine, that may be a little different, $32 Billion will actually hurt them at an operational level, and may actually make them reconsider these kinds of illegitimate practices
Meta Apps Have Been Covertly Tracking Android Users' Web Activity for Months
A new report says that Meta and Yandex have been stealing your browsing data through their Android apps. Once you installed one of their apps on your phone, they could siphon this data from websites running a corresponding Meta Pixel or Yandex Metrica script.
lifehacker.com
“Localhost tracking” explained. It could cost Meta 32 billion.
You just can't finish off Zuckerberg.
www.zeropartydata.es
We can only hope. But excellent work by EU, and I hope this isn't a one off as people like Google and Microsoft are doing similar practices regularly
