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Instagram Accused of Illegally Harvesting Biometric Data
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Another example of these so-called "woke" silicon valley companies that are always droning on about "doing no harm" or "trust our integrity". It's all garbage 
Agreed. The funds then need to be used to have a division to enforce human rights and a OPT IN procedure making it explicitly clear what you are agreeing too instead of burying it in TOS.
size of your ....?
They'll be disappointed.
And and the damage it does people's minds. It's just like a drug turning people into easy dopamine junkies craving for attention and likes, and it makes many people depressed. Specially teenagers.
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I wonder if you think that somehow also deletes the biometric data they already harvested from those posts.
I agree we should ban "network effect" social media.
I think the biggest issue is the mental damage it does to the majority of the users.
If you are patient and want to know more about how bad it is you can watch this:
It's implied to be facial recognition data as the article says it harvested the data via photo tagging.
Title should be “Facebooks wholly owned subsidiary instagram...”
Do something patriotic and good for humanity: #DeleteFacebook and it’s subsidiaries Instagram and Facebook Messenger from your life. To the extent possible limit your WhatsApp usage.
Do something patriotic and good for humanity: #DeleteFacebook and it’s subsidiaries Instagram and Facebook Messenger from your life. To the extent possible limit your WhatsApp usage.
$5000 per violation means users will get a settlement check of ~$2 if they jump through all the hoops to join the settlement. The law firm that coordinates the class action will get the remaining $4998 per viloation.
If Potus bans Tiktok he should also at a minimum ban Twitter/Facebook/Instagram(amongst others)...hell even Google.
I get Tiktok and what's going on there, but Facebook has been proven to sell information and all other kinds of privacy invasion, so why the hell are they not doing anything about Facebook? Somehow, they were still tracking me when I turned on the block cross site tracking on my browser. Facebook is scum, and worse than TikTok. For all we know, Facebook already sold all the information they wanted to China and Russia anyway.
Where’s the outrage? Facebook admitted secretly went after minors, stalking them and their data for money. They have no conscience and really capable of just about anything they can get away with. Yet, here we are again talking about the same issue.
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It may be tempting to delete profiles and remove them, however since I believe Facebook never deletes anything and all of our data is already gathered....does it make a difference at this point.
Age restrictions (with facial recognition) maybe should be implemented as to not pollute the young. But seeing TikTok content, its too late for us.
Age restrictions (with facial recognition) maybe should be implemented as to not pollute the young. But seeing TikTok content, its too late for us.
Zuckerberg harvesting private data for profit? I’m shocked. Truly shocked. When can we end this ridiculous notion of corporate personhood and start putting all people who break the law behind bars? I’m tired of living in a world where white collar crimes are hidden under the guise of corporate person hood and fines that make C level executives laugh. Both political parties are guilty of this crap.
I didn’t delete mine. I put it on some sort of dormant setting just in case I ever needed it for something. I couldn’t remember if I ever used it for log in credentials somewhere. (Turns out I didn’t).When I did decide to delete it, though, even though I still know my password, they would not and will not let me log in unless I send them a copy of my drivers license or other legal documents. Or...people on my friends list would have to somehow vouch for me.
But I don’t get to pick which friends. A list is generated and I have no say as to whom is on it. I’m not even on speaking terms with those people anymore. My real friends have kept in touch with me via phone and emails and texts.
I don’t want the people on the generated list knowing I’m trying to log back in. They’re the ones who got entangled in mid level marketing and a bunch of others turned out to be nonstop grifters once FB enabled and encouraged fund transfer features. Ive tried to get the system to generate a new list but it won’t.
Anyway, I can’t log back in on my own terms to completely eradicate what I can of my old account. I hate FB with a burning hatred.
Yes it is. Why do we need to wait until stuff like this happens when we can see it coming 10 miles away and prevent it? The US is in dire need of proactivity and preventative measures across many aspects of life.