FTC Says Social Media Platforms Engage in 'Vast Surveillance' of Users
FTC Says Social Media Platforms Engage in 'Vast Surveillance' of Users
A scathing new report takes aim directly at Big Tech and alleged violations of privacy.
Don't forget their 1427 trusted data partners!
11Essential.
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NO. REALLY?
8It is fine to have casual knowledge of or a hunch about something, but far better to have the research and analysis to prove it.
15Kahn!
9ITT: omg how other people don't see what I, a very smart and superior person who browses technology communities, have known for years
we should be celebrating that privacy issues are gaining more and more mainstream coverage.
45No one cares about this stuff but techies/Lemmy. Regular people don't care, like at all. They know tech companies do this stuff but if convenience>privacy, most people take the former every time to make life easier. Data privacy is not a tangeable thing in most people's minds.
There would have to be some sort of cataslismic event to wake people up enough for people to do anything meaningful. I don't know what that would be, but I hope someone figures that out sooner rather than later.
-9I read this and ask "What is your intention with this post?" What is gained if everyone is this jaded?
5I don't think some mass "waking up" event is going to occur, but every time another headline about it shows up, it gets more difficult to ignore or not care about it. and every time someone who's on the fence about the issue will pay more attention to it, and perhaps use the offending platform less. baby steps.
besides, I wouldn't say people don't care, they do when they get offered a choice: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/96-of-us-users-opt-out-of-app-tracking-in-ios-14-5-analytics-find/
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Wow you're so smarmt
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We need you Lina Khan. We need you, but stronger, faster, better. Let's fucking go.
33People in this thread don't seem to understand how anti big business the FTC has been since Lina Khan was appointed. These reports are meant to be used by congress to help guide real policy. It's one thing to just assume social media is violating privacy, it's another thing to have a facts-based report on exactly what is currently happening.
Of course the FTC needs new laws to do any enforcement and there's probably not enough anti corporation politicians to pass laws that give them real teeth on data privacy issues.
36Cute of your to assume that regimes whores in congress gonna do something lol
But hey let's spend another 10 years praying for daddy Sam to save us
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In other news, the sky is blue.
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79That's literally the sales pitch to investors, and has been for decades.
47Remember, when Western companies violate privacy that is okay.
When non-Western companies do it, that's bad.
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19Yeah, no shit!
36This is why I’m slowly migrating to the Fediverse.
Fuck social media companies.
18Well, the Fediverse isn't any more private, but at least it doesn't care much about your data. That said, any company could come and harvest all of that data if it wanted since it's open.
The Fediverse isn't the final step here.
4I understand that, but it's more about the targeted advertisements, sponsored posts, etc. Just give me my goddamn content and leave me alone LOL
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We're watching you too.
Now, entertain us, we are bored.
31Yep, all they gotta do is well, very little.
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They don't say.
16So this is why I switched to the fediverse. But to be honest, I have no idea if someone does things like that here or not. All my posts are public to everyone and machine readable. The only thing which would prevent someone of survailing users on the fediverse is it's very small scale. It is probably just not worth the effort.
10Allow me to reveal my age by saying… No, duh!!!
2Eat my shorts
4NOT!!
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Holy shit! For real?.....
-1Gotta wonder why they're saying this now? What's the agenda?
1Lina Khan actually takes action against companies unlike many of her predecessors.
11The new-ish Federal Trade Commission head has been making a push to work on quite a few projects for the past couple of years. They have a very small resources and man-power compared to the war chests of multibillion dollar companies, but recently, somehow managed to bring charges against Google as a monopoly. This in my opinion is a good thing. I consider myself a social liberal and a fiscal conservative. I don’t like how our government seems to take the money of these companies and turn a blind eye as they do what they want in pursuit of the almighty dollar. I support her endeavors working for the interests of the majority of people and not those few with the most money.
13I don’t like how our government seems to take the money of these companies and turn a blind eye as they do what they want in pursuit of the almighty dollar.
What country do you live in?
Because in the US, the government gives money to corpos. That's how the entire regime works lol
Politicians take donations sure but that's not the government. That's private regime whores living off corporate cash while handing out state aid Boeing intel and tech companies among many other parasites.
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Have you considered that the answers you seek may be in the article?
11Getting as much done as they can before the election in case Trump wins, I think
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And?
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