Facebook puts 1.5bn users on a boat from Ireland to California

[Andy Capp]

“Facebook is quietly changing its terms of service to shift 1.5 billion users away from Europe to the US while continuing to claim it wants to offer greater privacy protections.

The change covers 70 per cent of its users – based in Africa, Asia, Australasia and Latin/South America – and effectively removes legal protections over personal data that the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will provide from May 25.

Earlier this week, Facebook outlined new privacy settings to bring it in line with the GDPR, insisting that the new law "was an opportunity to invest even more heavily in privacy" and that it was going to go "beyond our obligations to build new and improved privacy experiences for everyone on Facebook."

It strongly implied that it would offer GDPR protections to everyone, penning a blog post this week titled: "Complying With New Privacy Laws and Offering New Privacy Protections to Everyone, No Matter Where You Live."

But that turned out to be yet another Facebook half-truth with the company going to enormous lengths to stop people from cutting it off from the valuable personal data that it packages and sells to third-parties, and which accounts for the bulk of its revenues.”
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/19/facebook_shifts_users/

Awesome ain’t it, how li’l Zuck values privacy?

 

[JudoThrowFiasco]

Post the link, please and thank you

 

[Andy Capp]

Post the link, please and thank you

Oops, thought I did. Op update incoming but here,
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/19/facebook_shifts_users/

 

[Rod1]

Mexican elections are in a critical point ATM and its amazing the way facebook is shaping people's views.

The amount of fake news and paid publicity, well its amazing how social engineering works.

 

[JudoThrowFiasco]

Had no idea that SA. Asia, Aussies and Africa were protected by the european terms

 

[Madmick]

It won't matter. People won't stop using it; particularly the people who bitch about it the most.

I was always in the, "I don't really care that they mine my data, they aren't going to find anything, and it's a worthwhile trade for free", but suddenly my data was being compromised by my idiot friends who sign away rights for an online quiz without taking pause to wonder, "Why in the blue fuck would a Facebook quiz require user consent for anything"? and this was only possible because Fuckerberg trusted a freaking Russian professor, granting him special access and privileges, at the height of the ongoing Russian scandal during the campaign.

Me making that decision and someone else making that decision is a huge difference. Me seeing this poor decision lead to abuses that guys like Roger Stone and Steve Bannon exploited toward a political end was a bridge too far. It had been bad enough seeing all the headlines of Facebook suppressing genuine-- if extreme-- conservative sources and blogs (meanwhile letting the actual "fake news" run hog wild).

I'd actually already packed up my account before that, because I was disgusted with what had become of Facebook, and how it was affecting my own social circles, but if I hadn't, I would have packed it up at Cambridge Analytica.

Meanwhile, all the guys who were like, "You're a cuck" for saying I didn't care about them spying on me because I didn't have anything to hide...don't care. They're still using it. Same for the snowflakes. Nothing but insincere howling from them, and just about everyone else, as far as I can tell.

 

[ObamaPhoneLady]

If you're still using Facebook at this point, you have no right to complain.

 

[kazam]

facebook is big brother

 

[ShoelessRye]

A lot of people feel almost trapped into keeping it because they have 10 years of their life on it and don't want to see it vanish if the deactivated - it would be like throwing away photo album and diaries - it's the story of your life if you are very active on it. Somebody should create an app or some sort that would allow you to download your total facebook account to your own computer so that you have your own "hard copy" and it might make it easier for people to then quit FB.

This could exist already for all I know. If not, I bet Zuck would fight it HARD.

 

[KILL KILL]

The information they have access to can be edited on the user's side, right? I'd suggest everyone change their info to best protect themselves.

 

[jrams]

GDPR is a mess and Facebook is probably going to be its first sacrificial lamb. The idea of data protection is good, and there are a lot of good things in the law giving people a right to know how their data is used, but is such a complicated thing; giving vague definitions of PII or data processing while having huge potential fines isn't good. But it's government, so what do you expect when it comes to any kind of understanding anything technical or the huge integrated systems that is the cloud? They can barely grasp why encryption is important.

Had no idea that SA. Asia, Aussies and Africa were protected by the european terms

They aren't, but the data being stored on EU land is.

 

[jrams]

The information they have access to can be edited on the user's side, right? I'd suggest everyone change their info to best protect themselves.

I haven't looked into Facebook specifically, but you need to realize it is a large connected social media application. They aren't just pulling in your data from what you think you've told them, but also your actions, implicit things like your geolocation, and what others have told the system about you (as well as other systems like LinkedIn).

With GDPR protections, you have the rights to get your data deleted from "their system". How deep the deletion goes is difficult to say though as at a certain point the tracking and auditing the trail becomes incredibly difficult.

 

[Madmick]

Oh yeah, in case you missed it:
Facebook comes under attack for tracking internet users who don't have a Facebook account

 

[funcrusher2007]

Oh yeah, in case you missed it:
Facebook comes under attack for tracking internet users who don't have a Facebook account

How Facebook haven’t been charged with something yet blows me away..

I know google and shit do it ..but atleast there you have to use a google product or have account..but tracking non users info... that’s fucking crazy.

I personally don’t have social media but I have noticed the uptick in coincidental suggested advertising in my browsers.

I use tablet for work..construction..I don’t go on internet browsers much..
Just email,construction apps like cad,PlanGrid,BIM,bluebeam etc.

But I’ll get ads on my phone or home computer for tools and construction related stuff, when I don’t even use my home computer for anything besides porn and gaming lol.

That black mirror episode about “likes” isn’t to far off of what we will have if someone doesn’t start curbing there intrusive power, lack of oversight.

 

[Rational Poster]

I never used facebook past the beta.

Suckers.

Pretty sure Russians stole all my data anyway tho.. too much world of tanks.


But real talk, people point the finger at facebook should be pointing their finger at every multinational website or game they've ever played.

They stole your data too. You really think Wargaming could stop Putin from taking our data even if they wanted to?

 

[cincymma79]

It’s facebook. Everything you put on it is public. Are people this fucking stupid?

 

[jrams]

know google and shit do it ..but atleast there you have to use a google product or have account..but tracking non users info... that’s fucking crazy.

I wouldn't be surprised if Google was (or at least were) tracking people through their public DNS or other people through interactions with people in gmail and google calendar.

 

[Madmick]

It’s facebook. Everything you put on it is public. Are people this fucking stupid?

Please take the time to actually understand the terms and mechanics of the story before commenting. You're exhibiting profound ignorance.

 

[JonesBones]

A lot of people feel almost trapped into keeping it because they have 10 years of their life on it and don't want to see it vanish if the deactivated - it would be like throwing away photo album and diaries - it's the story of your life if you are very active on it. Somebody should create an app or some sort that would allow you to download your total facebook account to your own computer so that you have your own "hard copy" and it might make it easier for people to then quit FB.

This could exist already for all I know. If not, I bet Zuck would fight it HARD.

Exactly what I have been saying. It is throwing away the last 10 years of their lives. For me, it doesn't matter because I don't do or have "memories". And it isnt even that. People like the current state of it too. The present. They like using it everyday. I can't see a way they can fail. Their stock price may take some hits but nobody is leaving.

That's a good idea for an app.

 

[Fawlty]

Okay at this point Zucky is just pissing on the collective face of the world and telling them it's not even raining. I only had the bare minimum Facebook presence until now but it might be time to cut that out too. No more signing into other apps with Facebook or using anything with their name on it.