The Netherlands' digital mininster said the government will be forced to stop using Facebook pages if it doesn't get clarity on its concerns from Meta.
  • 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”.
    • Rob BosEnglish
      5·
      8 months ago

      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.

  • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    8 months ago

    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.

    • 4am@lemm.eeEnglish
      14·
      8 months ago

      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

      • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.worldEnglish
        03·
        8 months ago

        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.

        • pedroapero@lemmy.mlEnglish
          3·
          8 months ago

          It seems like it is about using public pages to broadcast information. Mastodon seems fairly appropriate for that.

          • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.worldEnglish
            03·
            8 months ago

            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.

  • febra@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    8 months ago

    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.