Opinion: #Vivaldi#VivaldiBrowser needs stricter #Privacy . If they are really all about privacy then they should have test results similar to Brave (https://privacytests.org/nightly.html). I understand they they say that “they only block known trackers” or whatever but seriously, if you really want good privacy why not just block everything?
According to privacytests.org which is an open source collection of browser privacy tests, #Vivaldi doesn’t block trackers such as #Facebook and #google analytics. I would think that these would be the first trackers you would want to block as nearly every big/modern website has some of those trackers somewhere.
#Facebook / #Instagram planning to leech off of #Mastodon. Notice how, “Users on [Mastodon] will be able [to] search for, follow and interact with your profile and content” but no mention of following Mastodon accounts, a la “The plan as of now is that the MVP (minimum viable product) will definitely allow our users to broadcast posts to people on other servers. It may or may not enable our users to follow and view the content of people on other servers.” https://fosstodon.org/@rauschma/110414457697371791
If #facebook shows up, is it possible to have #activitypub apps that are able to be isolated from that mess? I left that site for a reason, I don’t rlly want to be forced to federate with whatever they bring
"Es ist irgendwie absurd, dass die Rekordstrafe an Irland geht - den EU-Mitgliedstaat, der alles getan hat, um sicherzustellen, dass diese Strafe nicht verhängt wird."
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@neil They could also start by outright removing certain components. For example there's zero need to keep serving Facebook pixels and Facebook like buttons in the EU; their logs can be deleted and at least the most obvious places their data went to purged. Ghost accounts are presumably easy to delete entirely.
Doing everything is hard, but doing something is very easy, and #Facebook has done nothing at all.
Following the EDPB’s binding dispute resolution decision of 13 April 2023, Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (Meta IE) was issued a 1.2 billion euro fine following an inquiry into its Facebook service, by the Irish Data Protection Authority (IE DPA). This fine, which is the largest GDPR fine ever, was imposed for Meta’s...
"Meta has been hit with a record €1.2 billion fine for not complying with the EU’s privacy rulebook.
The Irish Data Protection Commission announced on Monday that Meta violated the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) when it shuttled troves of personal data of European Facebook users to the United States without sufficiently protecting them from Washington's data surveillance practices"
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"The fine is the largest of its kind, and accompanies an order to stop data transfers to the US. The case stems back to 2013 and revelations about US #MassSurveillance."
So, today #Facebook was slammed with a record #GDPR fine of 1.2 billion EUR for illegally transferring personal data to the U.S.
While this and the fact that #Meta was ordered to stop doing this by November is good news, let's not forget that the company makes 2 billion EUR in net #profits every month.
DSGVO-Rekordstrafe gegen Facebook: Meta soll 1,2 Milliarden Euro Bußgeld zahlen
Seit zehn Jahren tobt der Streit über Facebooks Weitergabe von Nutzerdaten in die USA, wo sie nicht ausreichend geschützt sind. Jetzt folgt ein Rekordbußgeld.
If Mastodon is Twitter, Friendica is Facebook, and Lemmy is Reddit, but they're all communicating together, is there any real need to make different accounts unless we want to try out different features?
1.2 billion euro fine for Facebook as a result of European Data Protection Board's binding decision (edpb.europa.eu)
Following the EDPB’s binding dispute resolution decision of 13 April 2023, Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (Meta IE) was issued a 1.2 billion euro fine following an inquiry into its Facebook service, by the Irish Data Protection Authority (IE DPA). This fine, which is the largest GDPR fine ever, was imposed for Meta’s...