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https://noyb.eu/en/breaking-meta-prohibited-use-personal-data-advertising
#Meta ( the #Facebook parent company ) tried to bypass Europe's GDPR in order to force users to consent to the use of personal information for advertising. After litigation, the Irish data protection authority was overruled by the European equivalent. Meta faces a fine totalling EU390 in the two cases. A third case is due to be finalized later in January.
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https://nu.federati.net/url/289184 [www theverge com]
#Facebook parent company #Meta agrees to pay $725M in #Cambridge_Analytical class action lawsuit.
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I should note that we won't add bridges to #corpocentric networks like #Twitter or #Facebook.
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@gnu2 That's a good question. I do not know. I haven't had a #Facebook account since around 2010 or so, and I have never had an #Instagram account. There was political and other news discussed, but it wasn't the focus of the people I saw, and I don't remember organizations having much.
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In theory, I agree, but in practice, I have used #Ring, the earlier version of #Jami. The experience was so poor that I can no longer get my in-person contacts to try anything that is not #Facebook / #Instagram / #Zoom. And that's without ever trying the #videochat functionality ... we only used text chats and it was still a really poor experience.
I've heard it got better, but of course, none of my in-person contacts will try it again. This also affects apps like #Briar and #Session.
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/meta-stock-down-earnings-700-billion-in-lost-value [www cbsnews com] #meta, parent of #facebook, has lost over $700 million in stock value over the past year. Earnings are also down.
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mark-zuckerberg-10-billion-plan-190418341.html [finance yahoo com]
#Zuckerberg plans to prevent remote workers from hiding from their bosses. #Zuck #Facebook #metaverse
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@simsa04 @administrator Also the developer of #Soapbox was working on his own groups implementation based on #Facebook's groups. I am pretty sure that if he ever finishes, it will be incompatible with everyone else.
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#Ohio takes lead plaintiff spot in class-action lawsuit against #Facebook. https://nu.federati.net/url/287248 [www thecentersquare com]
#California is also part of this lawsuit.
#CA #OH #lawsuit
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It would be nice to have a big chunk of the people who are using #corpocentric #socnets like #Twitter and #Facebook and #Instagram move some or all of their presence over to the #OStatus and #ActivityPub branches of the #Fediverse, but I'd much rather they come because they want to try something different instead of coming because they are fleeing some change or impending change over there.
Why? Because these networks will never give them everything that those did. I personally believe that these networks can give some benefits that those cannot, but thus far, we've mostly tried to replicate their functionality ... without the benefit of nearly unlimited VC cash and a centralized model which puts $CentralizedNetwork at the center of its users' communications, where benefits built upon centralized knowledge of users' actions / choices / contacts.
Therefore, in 2-3 weeks, I expect 9 out of 10 new users to have have returned to Twitter ... or to some centralized network that springs up to duplicate Twitter without the Musk factor.
This has happened before. Maybe not on this scale, but it has happened. Multiple times. And always, most of them leave.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/05/world/yuri-milner-facebook-twitter-russia.html [wwww nytimes com]
NY Times reported in 2017 that a major investor in #Facebook and #Twitter was supported by Kremlin cash.
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https://nu.federati.net/url/284899 [www cityam com]
They shouldn't make these kinds of claims. They know it is not true and everyone else knows also.
#Facebook's value proposition is "everybody you know is here" ... shutting out Europe would change it to "everybody you know, except those who live or have citizenship in Europe" and leave them open for retreating again when similar rules are enforced in Asia.
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A #VPN provider that I used shut down without much notice (in fact, the only way I found out was that I visited their site months later, trying to figure out why I hadn't been able to connect).
The #hotel I was using had a local provider that blocked #Fediverse instances (including Mastodon.Social), #Diaspora, #XMPP, #IRC, and a certain mail provider that I still use. They did not block: #Facebook, #Twitter, #GMail, or Outlook / #Hotmail
Because I couldn't connect to the VPN, I discovered how many perfectly normal sites were blocked because they weren't on the top 100 list. I went downstairs and informed the front desk that I would be leaving their establishment because of their blocking.
I received a phone call from their networking vendor, who logged into their router and proxy and turned off filtering on a list of about 25 sites they'd blocked.
But the point is, the hotel and its provider cannot be trusted not to fsck with your data. Always use a VPN.
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#spam from security at facebookmail dot something (not visible in inbox list view)
Come on! You're not even trying hard. You're never going to get me to open that message. No #Facebook account.
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/zoom-app-personal-data-selling-facebook-lawsuit-alleges/
#Zoom denies selling isers' data to #Facebook, but here is yet another reason to avoid them.
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I closed my #Facebook account years ago. I have never regreted it. I lost contact with a nephew that didn't use any other channel, but that fixed itself later.
I considered opening an #Instagram account back when #A1's baby pictures were being posted there, but I decided not to join.
As Facebook focused more on walls than garden, trying to motivate me to rejoin so I can see some content, I have never been tempted.
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I had heard people talking about a #Facebook outage. Now I see #Cloudflare’s post about it:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/
#DNS changes preceded (and later ended) the outage.
Now #real_talk: No matter how much you like Facebook, #Instagram, #Whatsapp, Facebook #Messenger … you need to make sure that you and your contacts have another active channel of communication that can be used in place of each of those. Because your communications and relationships with people you care about are too important to entrust them solely to one corporation.
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#Facebook tried to license #NSO's #Pegasus spyware, so it could spy on #iOS users. https://www.cultofmac.com/698979/facebook-pegasus-nso-spyware-track-iphone-users/ [www cultofmac com]
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https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/22/ny_gardeners_facebook_hoe_concerns/ [www theregister com]
How do you get through to #Facebook's moderation team? Call the news media!
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https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/28/judge-dismisses-ftc-antitrust-complaint-against-facebook.html [www cnbc com]
This happened in late June and I'm just hearing about it.
Federal judge dismisses antitrust lawsuit against #Facebook.