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Meta uses your Facebook data for AI training, but opting out is a "review" game (stackdiary.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Recent updates to Meta’s help center reveal the company’s tentative steps towards transparency and user control (or lack thereof) over personal data.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Although the point is kind of moot - because of all the people who know you, that do willingly share their everything (including their phone contacts, photos etc), Facebook already has a You-shaped hole, even if you don’t have an account.

My favourite bit of the WhatsApp terms and conditions is where you agree that you have permission to share the information from your contacts. So, even if you go out of your way and tell WhatsApp you object to them using your data, someone else will supercede that when they accept WhatsApp's terms.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it's hilarious :( I have no idea how that's legal under GDPR. So that's why I'm part of the small group of WhatsApp-resisting signal users in my country.