- The Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) issued a statement advising the government not to use Facebook pages if it doesn’t get clarity on the privacy risks associated with using the platform.
- Dutch Minister for Digitalization Alexandra van Huffelen said the government will be forced to stop using Facebook pages if it doesn’t get clarity “as soon as possible”.
Everyone should
Better late than never?
I think it’s a smidge too late.
Never too late. If they stop now, in a few years most of their collected data is irrelevant or stale.
I feel you’re being a little defeatist.
Lol. Not defeatist. Sarcastic is the word you’re looking for.
I don’t think there exists a product that meets their concerns in the social networking space. Fediverse actually eschews the pretense of privacy, which is good because it always was a pretense.
The fediverse isn’t sweeping up the contacts stored in my phone to establish a relationship graph of everyone I’ve ever been in the vicinity of since 2009 and how that might affect me as a person
I’m not discounting their malignancy. What the Dutch seem to want is frankly impossible without end to end encryption, however.
That’s a fundementally different kind of decentralized social network, where only your “friends” locally get the keys to certain things.
E2E for the fediverse is in the pipeline. I think that only applies to DMs but that would be sufficient, everyone knows that a publicly readable message is publicly readable and if they don’t there’s no technological solution to that, anyway.
It seems like it is about using public pages to broadcast information. Mastodon seems fairly appropriate for that.
Their concern seems to revolve around the privacy of users that interact with their messages, particularly children.
Facebook is awful for privacy, but pretty much any social networking solution is also not what I’d consider private. Facebook just likes to pretend that’s not the case.
The mistake folks make is ever believing that someone will safeguard their data.
I think the EU should force Facebook’s owners to sell the platform to an EU owner since Facebook has a very bad track record with spying on our population.
about time eh?
