Facebook fined €1.2m by Spain for… you'll never guess what Facebook has been fined €1.2m ($1.43m) by the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) for violating privacy laws. The agency found [PDF, Spanish] that the company has collected information on its millions of Spanish users and then used that for advertising purposes without informing users how that information would be used, or …
Right...
And what if I'm not a user? There are no "privacy settings" for those. Lovemaking lovechilds, the wretched misbegotten ones, all of them!
(yes, _I_ use noscript, reject cookies etc. but in my opinion the paranoia most readers here share should not be necessary, in a perfect world and such. It is sickening to see though who imports scripts from where...)
More like 7+ years and running. Facebook regularly resurrects Zombie posts 'comments on photos etc' as far back as 2010 (account opening). My guess is Facebook need 'public postings' in order to justify user data to advertisers. But since I've posted nothing on my Timeline in 5+ years, Facebook undelete old comments. <Has anyone else seen this>?
BTW: It happens even if you deactivate your account, which I've done for a year now. It was an experiment to see if Ad-Data collected under Settings->Adverts, would continue to pile up from the likes of Datr cookies etc. I actively use Hosts blocking too, and have been for 3 years. That seems to help *better than just Ad-blockers alone*...
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"It also determined that Facebook did not delete data that it was obliged to remove under Spanish law, but "retains and reuses it later associated to the same user." Facebook retains user data for up to 17 months, the AEPD noted, even if those users deleted their accounts and actively removed personal information from the service."
Especially Ep-2 as it was heavy on Facebook... It didn't disappoint... Of course Facebook uses everything for Ads and Psychological profiles... There was irony to how upset the tech giants were that Trump won. Meanwhile representatives from Facebook, Twitter / Google along with their rigs, directly worked out of Trump's Texas data-silo! So much for hoping for anti-grav hover cars... The future we're on is horrific!
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/aug/07/secrets-of-silicon-valley-review-are-we-sleepwalking-towards-a-technological-apocalypse
It might be pocket change now, but if they let the governments get a foot in the door on their dodgy practices then they stand to lose a lot.
Snap off the toes before the foot gets in the door is their motto.
Okay, I just made that motto up, fair cop Guv'.
In using some of these services, you have to agree to their terms with some nasty splash screen that prevents access until terms are agree to (Google, Youtube).
But although you can tweak the settings, there is no total opt-out - an "I don't want you to track me at all" option.
And that's because there can't be a total opt-out, because they have to install a cookie to say you've dealt with their terms and conditions, so as not to show that nasty splash screen again. And this cookie is then has to be read across their multiple services, which means an ID to be able to screen at the backend as to what you've agreed (cookies not being cross-domain). So all this privacy malarkey, just ends up with more tracking.
The default should be that you don't track me, and don't block access by enforcing a privacy screen - unless I say otherwise - for instance if I log-in. I don't want to have to agree or disagree with privacy terms and conditions, because in doing so I know you will track me. Default should always be non-tracking.
For this reason, I only access the worst offenders in private browsing mode to keep control of the trackers. In fact, that would be a nice browser add-on - only view these sites in private mode.
But even without the trackers, I know they monitor location and IP address as a proxy, because I get the ads (when I allow ads to show) based on what others in the house are looking at...
I think "Done owt wrong" means "Done something wrong" in Northern English vernacular - "N'owt" means nothing.
Not speaking from personal knowledge - I'm a Midlander brought up in the South so could very well be wrong. Just remembering back to my Uni days when I shared a house with a couple of Northish types.
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