•

Norway’s Privacy Battle With Meta Is Just Getting Started

https://www.wired.com/story/norways-privacy-battle-with-meta-is-just-getting-started

The Norwegian data regulator has already fined Meta $7 million. Now it says it’s investigating the company’s new ad-free subscription services.

4 comments

Pons_Aelius

•

Norway: Stop collecting user data to sell and using it to serve adds!

FB: OK. You can now be add free for 10 euros a month.

Norway: Are you still collecting and selling user data with that plan?

FB: ...

LWD

•

deleted

gravitas_deficiency

•

They will collect and use (and not directly sell) to create training sets for neural nets, and then they can sell access to those neural nets for the purposes of ad targeting.

You’re not a user. You’re just another brick in the wall.