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‘Meta is out of options’: EU regulators reject its privacy fee for Facebook and Instagram
(finance.yahoo.com)
this post was submitted on 18 Apr 2024
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What's really unhinged is the amount of resources invested into gaslighting Meta does. https://about.fb.com/news/2024/01/investing-in-privacy/
They even have a "Chief Privacy Officer". They have brainwashed entire departments into believing that Meta actually cares about privacy, it's so terrifying. I wonder if people working there realize that, or they have simply fell for the gaslighting.
E.g. ex lawyer working for a firm that ensured companies could sell and use as much data as possible and defended them if they got sued or fined. Now in charge of “Privacy,” e.g. making sure Meta can sell and use as much private data as possible. It’s literal doublespeak
Yeah, when I saw "Chief Privacy Officer", my first thought was "Ministry of Truth", "Ministry of Peace", etc.
Spot on mate! Love you. Made my day
It's just a Privacy Marketplace Officer
McDonalds sells salads too
They probably don't care as long as they get paid so they can live and survive in this boring dystopia
yeah that wasn't an excuse then, isnt an excuse now.
morality comes second to survival
IDK, there are lots of other jobs than at Facebook. They pay really well though.
I have a personal rule to never work at a company I morally disagree with, and it has worked well so far. I don't like any of the companies I've worked for, but they solve real problems and don't abuse users too much.
okay but is it really surviving if you can't afford a yacht though? you should be able to purge a few ethnic minorities for a yacht, right? at least if you dont really mean it, about the killing?
and if you do something horrible, you still deserve to swing, because morality (the smart kind at least) doesn't come from magical Fucking fairy dust, it is survival.
Facebook has caused genocides. a comparison to an as camp guard who's drunk to within an ounce of blackout for every shift isnt so uunreasonable, and he still deserves to swing, unless he's helping people escape.
"Just following orders" didn't stick in 1945, it sure as hell doesn't stick today.
Or they're just like everyone else and are desperate for money to live so they sell their souls.
The more college debt a person has, the more malleable they are.
Step 1: Be born not in 'murica
Step 2: Get higher education
Step 3: ???
Step 4: profit
I wouldn’t doubt that the CPO is trying their hardest to convince people to care but people just dont
Yeah that's often the problem. They hire people who care and are good at the stuff so they can point to them and say "we really do care as a company" and then they aren't given the leverage they need inside the company to implement real changes
Doesn't CPO means Chef of marketing and communication, does it?
Sounds to me that Meta defines privacy in a very particular way. You’re still going to give all of your data to Meta, but anything outside this transaction is in the realm of privacy where you can have rights and settings.