Comment on ‘Meta is out of options’: EU regulators reject its privacy fee for Facebook and Instagram

Mikina@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• kautau@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Prior to joining Meta, she was a partner working on technology issues and co-chair of Covington & Burling’s global data practice. Erin collaborates with policymakers and experts on Meta’s products and features and is deeply involved in legislative and regulatory efforts around data protection, data portability, advertising, and Al.

  E.g. ex, lawyer working for a firm that ensured companies could sell and use as much data as possible and defended them if they got sued or fined. Now in charge of “Privacy,” e.g. making sure Meta can sell and use as much private data as possible. It’s literal doublespeak

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  • Murdoc@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, when I saw “Chief Privacy Officer”, my first thought was “Ministry of Truth”, “Ministry of Peace”, etc.

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    • mitrosus@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Spot on mate! Love you. Made my day

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  • sukhmel@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s just a Privacy Marketplace Officer

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• lanolinoil@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  McDonalds sells salads too

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• Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They probably don’t care as long as they get paid so they can live and survive in this boring dystopia

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  • melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    yeah that wasn’t an excuse then, isnt an excuse now.

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    • shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      morality comes second to survival

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        IDK, there are lots of other jobs than at Facebook. They pay really well though.

        I have a personal rule to never work at a company I morally disagree with, and it has worked well so far. I don’t like any of the companies I’ve worked for, but they solve real problems and don’t abuse users too much.

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      • melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        and if you do something horrible, you still deserve to swing, because morality (the smart kind at least) doesn’t come from magical Fucking fairy dust, it is survival.

        Facebook has caused genocides. a comparison to an as camp guard who’s drunk to within an ounce of blackout for every shift isnt so uunreasonable, and he still deserves to swing, unless he’s helping people escape.

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      • Gabu@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        “Just following orders” didn’t stick in 1945, it sure as hell doesn’t stick today.

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• Isoprenoid@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I wonder if people working there realize that, or they have simply fell for the gaslighting.

  Or they’re just like everyone else and are desperate for money to live so they sell their souls.

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  • WamGams@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The more college debt a person has, the more malleable they are.

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    • Gabu@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Step 1: Be born not in 'murica
      Step 2: Get higher education
      Step 3: ???
      Step 4: profit

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• NerdyPopRocks@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I wouldn’t doubt that the CPO is trying their hardest to convince people to care but people just dont

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  • Natanael@slrpnk.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah that’s often the problem. They hire people who care and are good at the stuff so they can point to them and say “we really do care as a company” and then they aren’t given the leverage they need inside the company to implement real changes

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• moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Doesn’t CPO means Chef of marketing and communication, does it?

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• Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sounds to me that Meta defines privacy in a very particular way. You’re still going to give all of your data to Meta, but anything other than this transaction is in the realm of privacy where you can have rights and settings.

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