Italian data protector makes Facebook an offer it might want to refuse: A €1m fine for Cambridge Analytica data leak
Bit of a buried lede…
In a section dedicated to enforcement related to white nationalist content, they wrote that Facebook’s current policy on white nationalism is “too narrow,” as it merely prohibits praise, support, and representation of the terms “white nationalism” or “white separatism.”
It really is getting harder and harder to attribute to incompetence what is increasingly clearly malice.
I read that as “Outrage maps”. For a moment, I thought that Facebook had made something borderline useful. For a moment.
Facebook appears to have been prioritizing monitoring its own image and that of its top executives, including by keeping tabs on fantastical posts and memes related to CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Indicating that the ways Facebook can continue to erode trust in its products are evidently limitless, Bloomberg reported Monday that the social media network has used specialized toolkits to monitor and shepherd the public’s opinion of the company and its top brass.
Facebook: The future is private! So private, we designed some handy new fingercams for y’all!
Facebook chucks 1.5 hours’ profit at Citizens Advice scam charity to defuse consumer champ’s defamation suit
Facebook’s Libra is a terrorist’s best friend, thunders US Treasury: Crypto-coins dubbed ‘national security risk’
One month’s revenue? Ohhhhh Slap my hand again! PLEASE.
It’s official: Deploying Facebook’s ‘Like’ button on your website makes you a joint data slurper
It’s always interesting watching the official BB line trying to thread the needle between “GDPR is onerous tyranny” and “all the tech companies will sell your data to death squads to make a buck” these days.
“It’s complicated.”
