Facebook

https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/?guccounter=1

In 2016, Facebook launched a secret project designed to intercept and decrypt the network traffic between people using Snapchat’s app and its servers.

https://nrkbeta.no/2023/10/31/forbud-mot-meta-om-bruk-av-persondata-utvides-til-hele-eos/

Datatilsynet vant frem hos Personvernrådet i EU. Tilsynets forbud utvides til flere land.
– Dette er en historisk dag for personvernet, skriver direktør i Datatilsynet Line Coll i en uttalelse til NRK.

Datatilsynet beordret i sommer Meta å stanse bruken av nordmenns persondata til adferdsbasert reklame.

Teknologikjempen, som eier Facebook og Instagram, har siden august fått én million i daglige bøter for å ikke følge vedtaket.
Siden har tilsynet bedt Personvernrådet i EU (EDPB) om en bindende hastebeslutning. Denne beslutningen gjør tilsynets vedtak permanent og gjeldende for hele EØS-området. Tidligere gjaldt vedtaket kun for Norge og kun for en midlertidig periode.

https://www.roughtype.com/?p=8935

Facebook, it’s now widely accepted, has been a calamity for the world. The obvious solution, most people would agree, is to get rid of Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg has a different idea: Get rid of the world.

https://nrkbeta.no/2023/09/06/datatilsynet-vant-frem-i-oslo-tingrett-mot-meta/

Tidligere i august møttes Datatilsynet og Meta i Oslo tingrett for å avgjøre om teknologigiganten må følge et vedtak om å betale dagsbøter på én million kroner. Det skjer etter at Datatilsynet i sommer beordret Meta, som eier Facebook og Instagram, å stoppe bruken av persondata til såkalt adferdsbasert markedsføring inntil selskapet gjør det på en lovlig måte.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/07/norway-meta-fine-user-privacy-breach-targeted-ads

Country’s data protection regulator said firm cannot harvest user information such as physical locations for showing targeted ads

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/may/27/nhs-data-breach-trusts-shared-patient-details-with-facebook-meta-without-consent

Observer investigation reveals Meta Pixel tool passed on private details of web browsing on medical sites

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/21/facebook-to-be-fined-648m-for-mishandling-user-information

Decision by Ireland’s privacy regulator will set record for breach of EU’s data protection rules

https://noyb.eu/en/austrian-dsb-meta-tracking-tools-illegal

the Austrian Data Protection Authority (DSB) has decided that the use of Facebook’s tracking pixel directly violates the GDPR

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The DSBs decision to declare Google Analytics illegal, also applies to the “Facebook Login” and “Meta Pixel” tools provided by Meta: If these tools are used, data is inevitably transferred to the USA, where the data is at risk of intelligence surveillance. European website operators are therefore advised not to include any tools from Meta on their websites.

https://cyberscoop.com/meta-large-language-model-available-online/

A set of sophisticated large language models developed by Facebook parent company Meta — and intended to be accessed only by authorized researchers — were made available for download on Friday, releasing to the public the most powerful such AI model yet and increasing the likelihood that the technology might be misused. 

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/28/23618804/google-facebook-login-ads-web-design-hell

There is a new trend among websites where they want my email address before I’m allowed to read their free content. While I sympathize with the struggles of the media business, I am just going to point out something obvious: not reading is easier than reading — and way easier than logging in.

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And confidential to Substack: if I have clicked into a newsletter on the web, blocking my view of the thing I’m trying to read with a subscription pop-up isn’t going to make me more likely to subscribe. It just means I’m probably not going to read the newsletter.