The European Commission today decided it is safe for personal data to be transferred from the European Union to US-based companies, handing a victory to firms like Facebook and Google despite protests from privacy advocates who worry about US government surveillance.
“It’s very easy to sell on Facebook, and very easy to earn money. Not to brag.”
I'm getting really tired of trying to run away from big tech, only to be ensnared again by the greed and/or naivety of sites who ultimately cave to the whims of big tech....
I would like to know if I can feel safe here, or if I should pack it up and start looking elsewhere sooner rather than later....
Meta/Facebook's approach to GDPR compliance is largely insufficient, according to a new ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union....
"Superpacking is a method of optimal binary compression developed by Meta to help reduce the size of their Android APKs. This compression for APKs makes sense for reducing network traffic required for distribution, but becomes an issue when trying to recover the original native ARM binaries for analysis. This post walks through...
Prime Minister Hun Sen, an avid user of the platform, had vowed to delete his account after Meta’s oversight board said he had used it to threaten political violence.
February 13, 2012...
A few months ago, this concept of “p92” started leaking and it was rumored that Meta was joining the fediverse. Initially, not much happened with the discussion. I could run around and say “Nope, I’m not defederating” and no one really cared or challenged that position. I made it clear I advocate for user agency;...
The Malaysian government announced that it is filing a lawsuit against Meta Platforms for its purported failure to remove "undesirable" posts on the company’s popular social media platform Facebook. Enforcing accountability: In a statement released Friday, the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission noted that it is...
A pretty good summation of this whole upcoming thing I've mentioned. It's definitely more focused on the microblogging side i.e. the Mastodon-powered instances especially but same concerns, regardless.
Meta Platforms Inc plans to end access to news on Facebook and Instagram for all users in Canada once a parliament-approved legislation requiring internet giants to pay news publishers comes into effect, the company said on Thursday.
This is Fosstodon's official stance on the whole Facebook joining the Fediverse debacle.
No need for them to chase the next big platform like reddit/facebook/google+, and no need to create "official accounts" on each....
Meta wants to make it easy for billions of Instagram users to sign up for Threads on launch day....
The Verge article covering Meta's new platform coming to the fediverse.
From Australia to Canada, Big Tech has resisted lawmakers' efforts to force them to pay news publishers for carrying their articles. Now, that battle is playing out in California.
Shutterstock, Inc. today announced that it entered into a definitive agreement to acquire GIPHY, Inc. from Meta Platforms, Inc.
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...
More than 150 workers whose labor underpins the AI systems of Facebook, TikTok and ChatGPT gathered in Nairobi on Monday and pledged to establish the first African Content Moderators Union, in a move that could have significant consequences for the businesses of some of the world’s biggest tech companies.
