The EU right now is telling Meta that it is illegal to give users the option of either ads based on behavior on the platform or charging a monthly subscription fee.
> The EU right now is telling Meta that it is illegal to give users the option of either ads based on behavior on the platform or charging a monthly subscription fee.
And? With GDPR the EU decided that private data cannot be used as a form of payment. It can only be voluntarily given. Similarly to using ones body. You can fuck whoever you want and you can give your organs if you so choose but no business is allowed to be payed in sex or organs.
That’s just the problem. Meta was going to give users a choice between paying with “private data” or paying money. The EU won’t let people make that choice are you saying people in the EU are too dumb to decide for themselves?
But how is your data that you give to Facebook “private” to you? Facebook isn’t sharing your data to others. Ad buyers tell Facebook “Put this ad in front of people between 25-30 who look at pages that are similar to $x on Facebook”
You cannot barter with fundamental human rights, which right to data protection is (as per Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union), the same way you cannot barter yourself into slavery, even if you insist you are willing and consenting. By what precedent? By the precedent of the state being sovereign in enacting law.
WeChat would exit on Android if you didn’t give your contact list to them, but this behaviour wasn’t allowed on iOS by our Apple overlords and Im quite happy about that.
> Well, per GDPR they aren't allowed to do that. Are they giving that option to users outside of EU? Why Not?
Because no other place thinks that their citizens are too dumb to make informed choices.
> What about sex and organs? In your opinion should businesses be allowed to charge you with those?
If consenting adults decide they want to have sex as a financial arrangement why not? Do you think these 25 year old “girlfriends” of 70 year old millionaires are there for the love?
> I didn't give it to them. What is so hard to understand about that?
When you are on Facebook’s platform and you tell them your name, interests, relationship status, check ins, and on their site, you’re not voluntarily giving them your data?
> Are you saying that your browsing data isn't private to you? Care to share it?
If I am using a service and giving that service information about me, yes I expect that service to have information about me.
Just like right now, HN knows my email address and my comment history and where I access this site from.
There's a fundamental difference I think in the European mindset on private data and the American.
From the European mindset: private data is not "given" to a company, the company is temporarily allowed to use the data while that person engages in a relationship with the company, the data remains owned by the person (think copyright and licensing of artistic works).
American companies: think that they are granted ownership of data, just because they collect it. Therefore they cannot understand or don't want to comply with things like GDPR where they must ask to collect data and even then must only use it according to the whims of the person to whom it belongs.
> Because no other place thinks that their citizens are too dumb to make informed choices.
In case of Facebook (or tracking generally) you had no chance to make an informed choice. You are just tracked, and your data is sold to hundreds of "partners" with no possibility to say "no"
> Just like right now, HN knows my email address and my comment history and where I access this site from.
And that is fine. You'd know that if you spent about one afternoon reading through GDPR, a regulation that has been around for 8 years.
A distinction without meaning. Here's your original statement: "no other place thinks that their citizens are too dumb to make informed choices."
Questions:
At which point do you make informed choice about the data that Facebook collects on you?
At which point do you make informed choice about Facebook tracking you across the internet, even on websites that do not belong to Facebook, and through third parties that Facebook doesn't own?
At which point do you make an informed choice to let Facebook use any and all data it has on you to train Facebook's AI?
Bonus questions:
At which point did Facebook actually start give users at least some information on the data they collect and letting them do an informed choice?
> At which point do you make informed choice about the data that Facebook collects on you?
You make an “informed choice” when you create a Facebook account, give Facebook your name, date of birth, your relationship status and who you are in a relationship with, your sexual orientation, when you check in to where you have been, when you click on and buy from advertisers, when you join a Facebook group, when you tell it who your friends are…
Should I go on? At each point you made an affirmative choice about giving Facebook your information.
> At which point do you make informed choice about Facebook tracking you across the internet, even on websites that do not belong to Facebook, and through third parties that Facebook doesn't own?
