That’s literally the sales pitch to investors, and has been for decades.
FTC Says Social Media Platforms Engage in 'Vast Surveillance' of Users
Submitted 3 months ago by koncertejo@lemmy.ml to technology@lemmy.world
https://gizmodo.com/ftc-says-social-media-platforms-engage-in-vast-surveillance-of-users-2000500840
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Prox@lemmy.world 3 months ago
z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
We need you Lina Khan. We need you, but stronger, faster, better. Let’s fucking go.
2pt_perversion@lemmy.world 3 months ago
People 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.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
Yeah, no shit!
potentiallynotfelix@lemdro.id 3 months ago
In other news, the sky is blue.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 months ago
Don’t forget their 1427 trusted data partners!
masterofn001@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Essential.
loutr@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
But it’s their legitimate interest! ^Whatever ^that ^means
harsh3466@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
FTC says water is wet.
fubarx@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
cjriebe@lemmy.riebe.cloud 3 months ago
This is why I’m slowly migrating to the Fediverse.
Fuck social media companies.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 3 months ago
We’re watching you too.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Yep, all they gotta do is well, very little.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Well, 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.
cjriebe@lemmy.riebe.cloud 3 months ago
I understand that, but it’s more about the targeted advertisements, sponsored posts, etc. Just give me my goddamn content and leave me alone LOL
aesthelete@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It’s fine to have casual knowledge of or a hunch about something, but far better to have research and analysis to prove it.
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Yeah no shit.
yemmly@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I like that someone in a position of authority is talking about this.
Rob200@lemmy.autism.place 3 months ago
They don’t say.
powermaker450@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
NO. REALLY?
aaaaace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Kahn!
jeena@piefed.jeena.net 3 months ago
So 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.
linearchaos@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Rule #1: anybody who can get you to give them your information of likes, dislikes just about anything will sell it to other people, or use it for their own sales to you.
Rule #2: If anyone has any reason to make you accept terms and conditions and there’s any chance that they you may want to sue them in future, they’re going to slip in a binding arbitration clause unless it is legally difficult for them to do so.
Wake up FTC it’s not just social media it’s deeply embedded everywhere in commerce and society and it needs to be addressed RFN.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Gotta wonder why they’re saying this now? What’s the agenda?
Mellow12@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The 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 companies, but recently, somehow managed to bring charges against Google on monopoly charges. 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 people and not those with the money.
protist@mander.xyz 3 months ago
Have you considered that the answers you seek may be in the article?
TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Lina Khan actually takes action against companies unlike many of her predecessors.
catloaf@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Getting as much done as they can before the election in case Trump wins, I think
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 3 months ago
Remember, when Western companies violate privacy that is okay.
When non-Western companies do it, that’s bad.
irreticent@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I disagree. It’s bad when anyone does it.
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 3 months ago
I agree. I was being very sarcastic and didn’t put the traditional /s.
The US freaked out over TikTok harvesting private data yet barely shrugs at how US companies are routinely harvest private data and sell it.
marlowe221@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Allow me to reveal my age by saying… No, duh!!!
KellysNokia@lemmy.world 3 months ago
In idiom meta for this scenario, most Lemmy users are what would be considered ‘the choir’
dumbass@leminal.space 3 months ago
Holy shit! For real?..
m3t00@lemmy.world 3 months ago
anti-Social ones. this all public btw.
Laborer3652@reddthat.com 3 months ago
Thats why the only social media I use is Lemmy and I delete my accounts regularly.
Actually speaking of that, is time to delete this one too.
DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 3 months ago
And?
noodlejetski@lemm.ee 3 months ago
ITT: 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.
laverabe@lemmy.world 3 months ago
No 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.
noodlejetski@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I 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.
zbyte64@awful.systems 3 months ago
I read this and ask “What is your intention with this post?” What is gained if everyone is as jaded as you?
sentientity@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I don’t think this is true. Most people do care, in my anecdotal experience. I am not in tech circles. It is not a niche thing to be concerned about these days.
antmzo220@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Genuinely, who doesn’t know/suspect this? I don’t think it’s about superiority at all.
I don’t know literally anyone who doesn’t know or atleast expect this, even normies have the concepts of NSA/Big Brother.
Literally even my tech illiterate parents know/suspect that you aren’t private anywhere.
Valmond@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Wow you’re so smarmt