Comment on Meta sues FTC, hoping to block ban on monetizing kids’ Facebook data
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 1 year agoNot to defend Meta, but monetizing doesn’t imply selling. Factories monetize their equipment, for example, but they don’t sell it if they want to stay in business.
Sure but they are still maintaining data and selling access to it insights from it or ads targeted based on it to third parties.
It’s being used to target content to minors for the purpose of selling directly to them, influencing their choices without any kind of real oversight.
Even if the data isn’t sold directly it’s still not okay.
Sure. I’m just taking issue with the ridiculously common claim that advertising companies sell your data. It’s false and doesn’t even make sense.
It also matters because I’d much rather a few big companies have my data than a bunch of Russian and Chinese data brokers. Even if you think they’re no worse individually, there are a lot more of them.
dinckelman@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My guy, what do you think an ad network uses people’s data for? This is not even a hypothetical situation. They will absolutely sell anything they can to some dogshit corporation, for targeted adverts
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Targeting ads. Not selling the data you use to target ads, because that would be fucking stupid.