Comment on EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy
DrWeevilJammer@lemmy.ml 5 months agoLet’s say that I’ve never had a Facebook account, but Facebook still has a lot of data it has collected about me from multiple sources, including other Facebook users, who might post photos that I am in, or share information about me in posts, neither of which i gave consent to anyone to share.
Is it fair that my only option to protect my private information is to CREATE a Facebook account and pay them to STOP collecting and selling my private information?
pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 5 months ago
That’s not what is happening here. Facebook is offering to let you pay for an ad free experience. It has nothing to do with shadow profiles.
BolexForSoup@kbin.social 5 months ago
That is exactly what is happening here.
Jako301@feddit.de 5 months ago
No, it’s not. You paying them money won’t stop them from collecting data about you. It only stops them from selling it to show targeted ads.
Don’t get me wrong, I despise meta for it and think they should be prosecuted for that immediately, but that has nothing to do with the article or what the EU is saying.
Mixing these two things just cause you hate meta will get us nowhere. Their data collection of non-users is straight up illegal, but the pay with money or data model is something that especially news sites have been using for a long time now.