The EU bans Meta's use of personal data for behavioural advertising.
The European Data Protection Board said Wednesday it had adopted a binding decision that will ban Facebook and Instagram owner Meta from using the personal data of users for targeted advertisements.
Earlier this year Norway imposed a ban on sending Facebook and Instagram users targeted advertisements based on their personal data.
Mainstream social media and messaging apps (#Facebook, #WhatsApp, #Instagram etc) are a nightmare for our personal data and freedoms.
We have #FreeSoftware replacements for most of these services but maintaining these services has recurring cost and effort.
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Deutsche Telekom: Die App »MeinMagenta« gibt ungefragt personenbezogene Daten an Facebook weiter, ohne Facebook/Meta in den Datenschutzhinweisen zu erwähnen. 👇
kuketz-blog.de/meinmagenta-deu…
#telekom #deutschetelekom #facebook #meta #dsgvo #ttdsg #datenschutz #datensendeverhalten
MeinMagenta gibt ungefragt personenbezogene Daten an Facebook weiter, ohne Facebook/Meta in den Datenschutzhinweisen zu erwähnen.Kuketz IT-Security Blog
oh, here's some JUICY rumored details about meta's plans for the fediverse
tl;dr "Meta will only federate with select larger instances from the beginning. There will be contracts which also provide for financial compensation for the instance owners."
can't entirely verify their validity but it's still worth posting just in case
#FediPact #barcelona #project92 #p92 #meta #facebook #fediverse #fediblockmeta #FediAdmin #MastoAdmin #threads
Huge win for privacy: Record fine against #Facebook thanks to Max Schrems & @noybeu! 🥳
#Meta must pay 1.2 billion euros for violating the EU #privacy regulation #GDPR. 👌
Read more: 👇tutanota.com/blog/facebook-tra…
Meta must pay 1.2 billion euros for violating the EU regulation GDPR.Tutanota
L'outil #Mobilizon de l'association lyonnaise #Framasoft est une bonne alternative éthique aux événements #Facebook. Je suggère à celles et ceux qui voudraient organiser des mouvements de grève, des blocages et toutes sortes de manifestations contre la politique de notre gouvernement de s'en emparer sans attendre !
#logicielslibres #injustices
#reformedesretraites #liberté #egalite
Österreichs Datenschutzbehörde: #Facebook-Trackingdienste sind rechtswidrig
heise.de/news/Oesterreichs-Dat…
Nach Google Analytics nun auch Facebook/Meta. Danke, @noybeu !
Wer auf Webseiten in der EU Dienste wie Facebook Login oder Meta Pixel zur Messung einbindet, verstößt wegen der Datenübertragung in die USA gegen die DSGVO.Stefan Krempl (heise online)
So, it’s been quite a year for legacy, centralized social media — and all without any really big change to the laws that govern it (yet — the EU’s are coming into force shortly, but pos…Techdirt
A leak from the European Data Protection Board reveals that the #EU's top #privacy regulator is about to overrule the Irish Data Protection Commission and declare #Facebook's business model illegal, banning surveillance-based #ads without explicit consent:
noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-personaliz…
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The EDPB has decided that three Meta Apps (Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp) did not have a legal basis to process user data since May 2018. Meta's legal trick has been rejected.noyb.eu
Back to #Firefox I go! Multi-Account Containers are a killer #privacy feature that only Firefox (and maybe derivatives) has access to.
addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef…
There's some helper add-ons to further silo #Facebook, #Twitter, and #Google. (That said, I use my own containers for Google to split my accounts)
Facebook: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef…
Twitter: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef…
Google: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef…
Download Facebook Container for Firefox. Prevent Facebook from tracking you around the web. The Facebook Container extension for Firefox helps you take control and isolate your web activity from Facebook.addons.mozilla.org
#Meta kapiert den #Datenschutz nicht
Der Konzern um #Facebook #Insta & Co. sammelt Kontaktdaten (#Handynummer #Mail Adresse) von Nicht(!)-Nutzern - ohne erkennbare #Rechtsgrundlage 👎
#Löschen lassen geht, aber Meta sagt: „In bestimmten Fällen müssen wir deine #Kontaktinformationen länger aufbewahren, einschließlich nach deiner Aufforderung an uns, sie zu löschen.“
No way! 🫣
stern.de/digital/online/daten-…
Über Jahre sammelte der Meta-Konzern die Adressbücher seiner Nutzer:innen – um Freunde leichter finden zu können. Auch Ihre Daten könnten bei Meta gelande...Christian Hensen (STERN.de)
Meta has created a tool that lets you check if they’ve scraped your phone number or email address from someone else’s contacts list.
It also lets you remove and block your phone number or email from their database. It’s hidden away in one of their help articles:
Source: Business Insider (businessinsider.com/facebook-l…)
If any of your friends shared their address books with Facebook, the company likely has your contact info — even if you've never used its services.Jordan Parker Erb (Insider)
OnlyFans Bribed Meta [Facebook] to Put Thousands of Adult Entertainers on Terrorist Watch List, Lawsuits Allege
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Via @volt4ire
Three lawsuits claim that OnlyFans paid Meta to shadow-ban users who promoted its competitors.Rodlyn-mae Banting (Jezebel)
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NEW: #Facebook is collecting ultrasensitive personal #data about #abortion seekers and enabling anti-abortion organizations to use that data as a tool to target and influence people online, in violation of its own policies and promises.
#privacy #surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #DeleteFacebook
themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2022/…
The social media giant gathers data from crisis pregnancy centers through a tracking tool that works whether or not a person is logged in to their Facebook accountthemarkup.org
From leaked #Facebook internal documents:
- It has no idea how much data it ultimately collects on its users
- Cannot control where all that data goes internally
- Ultimately does not know what happens with it
vice.com/en/article/akvmke/fac…
“We do not have an adequate level of control and explainability over how our systems use data,” Facebook engineers say in leaked document.Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (VICE)
RT @twicechild41@twitter.com
Bringing up a #synapse (Matrix.org) stack with @traefik@twitter.com, @PostgreSQL@twitter.com, #elementio, #facebook and #telegram bridges from #mautrix and a bot manager from #maubot, with #dockercompose. My first ever guide! github.com/twicechild/matrix-s…
#matrixorg #traefik #PostgreSQL #homelab
🐦🔗: twitter.com/twicechild41/statu…
Matrix is an open standard for interoperable, decentralised, real-time communicationMatrix.org
There have been many reports lately that Facebook is blocking links to joinmastodon.org
If you are still on Facebook, please keep spreading the word about Mastodon and the Fediverse.
If joinmastodon.org doesn't work, try posting a link to a reliable instance people can join. There are so many instances, Facebook cannot block all of them from being mentioned.
That Facebook are even doing this implies the Fediverse is on their radar, which is quite an achievement in itself!
#FediTips #Fediverse #MastoTips #Mastodon #Facebook #DeleteFacebook #Alternatives
Mastodon is an open source decentralized social network - by the people for the people. Join the federation and take back control of your social media!joinmastodon.org
