Facebook still wants your data

This cosmetic change could represent the first

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step in Facebook's "privacy pivot" announced in March 2019. But we're still waiting to hear exactly what will be happening with our data.

Pile on Facebook

Facebook has been under immense pressure from both the Federal Trade Commission in the United States, and governments around the world in the wake of a string of privacy scandals (including Cambridge Analytica).

After live-streamed terrorism in New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern is leading a global charge for regulation and oversight. The recent Christchurch Call meeting resulted in tech companies and world leaders signing an agreement to eliminate terrorist and violent extremist content online.

Everyone is piling on Facebook, even Zuckerberg's original platform co-founder Chris Hughes.

Hughes said "it's time to break up Facebook," and "the government must hold Mark accountable." He was referring to the huge power Zuckerberg holds through controlling the algorithms that keep Facebook—and more recently acquired platforms Instagram and Whatsapp—ticking over. Those algorithms functionalise Facebook's vast body of user data.

https://phys.org/news/2019-06-facebook.html