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

Norway to fine Meta $98,500 a day over user privacy breach from 14 August::Country’s data protection regulator said firm cannot harvest user information such as physical locations for showing targeted ads

    • Magnor@lemmy.magnor.ovhEnglish
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      11 months ago

      I wholeheartedly agree with your first point. The second however does baffle me slightly. I’m not from Norway but I would not bet their small businesses are that reliant on targeted ad. But I could very much be wrong.

      Actually I’m not sur I understand why targeted ads, in the way Facebook is implementing them anyway, is that beneficial to small businesses. Bigger outfits have the means to litterally crush the small ones in this arena too.

        • Magnor@lemmy.magnor.ovhEnglish
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          11 months ago

          I stand corrected then, thank you very much for the time and effort this post took. This is clearly an outlook I lacked.