"Social media"

[Brigadier]

But they broke the law with the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

And?

 

[SirGalahad]

And?

They obviously didn't operate within their T&C.

If they have operated in accordance with their published terms and conditions

 

[Brigadier]

Hence, my "if".

John's posting about things he doesn't like, rather than things that contravene ts and cs, and regulation.

 

[Brigade77]

I think that the main problem with soshal meedya is that most folk don't understand just how much of their privacy is being sucked from them.

I don't know ANYONE who would willingly submit a photo likeness of themselves to a facial recognition database, yet the biggest database out there is very nearly complete.

 

[JohnD]

..."Germany’s antitrust watchdog on Thursday blocked Facebook from pooling data collected from its social platforms and third-party websites without user consent in a landmark decision on internet privacy rights....

... the result of an antitrust probe into potential market abuse by Facebook which started almost three years ago."

Three years ago it was "potential."

 

[sodthisforfun]

Is any social media free? No, of course not. They don't run it out of the goodness of their hearts. People just don't care, they want to post a picture of their dinner, end of.

We are tracked online the whole time, probably the best bet is to not use a computer, certainly not social media, google, ebay, amazon etc etc and wear a tinfoil hat.

 

[motorbiking]

Actually I think most people don't care because they don't value the data. They are happy to have the free service. Regulatory authorities in all countries abuse their power to "tax" international firms. The US are far worse that European countries.

BP paid $20bn in fines for their oil spill <15 dead
Union Carbide - less than $100k >15,000 dead

 

[SirGalahad]

Why are you conflating issues of regulatory or agency capture with tax?

The Bhopal disaster highlighted how a poorer country (then) couldn't deal with a powerful MNC.

Many people don't value their data as they have not been taught or learned the value of it.

 

[^woody^]

It's like going into a cake shop and trying to impose your own beliefs on the company and contravening their T&C's.

And yet the answer is very simple. Use another cake shop.

 

[durhamplumber]

It's like going into a cake shop and trying to impose your own beliefs on the company and contravening their T&C's.

Is it.

 

[^woody^]

It is

 

[SirGalahad]

The issue is when some practices are predatory such as payday loans and lending, fixed odd betting etc should the Government regulate those areas.

 

[SirGalahad]

It's like going into a cake shop and trying to impose your own beliefs on the company and contravening their T&C's.

And yet the answer is very simple. Use another cake shop.

Did the T&C exclusively prohibit those beliefs and would that be discrimination.

Its more likely the staff as is their right can refuse to serve someone.

 

[JohnD]

It's like going into a cake shop

It's like going into a cake shop, and finding that on the back of the receipt is a line saying that by walking through the door you have agreed to their conditions, which are printed in light-brown ink on dark yellow paper, in a twenty-volume book which is on a shelf in their back room. Among these conditions is one saying you permit them to follow you around and make notes on what shops you go into, their address, and the products that you buy, and the products that you look at in other shop windows, and that you agree to carry a notebook with you holding that information, which they can take out of your pocket and read, or write in.

 

[Brigade77]

Did you know that software exists that can predict your height from a 15sec phone conversation with an accuracy of over 80% ?

Why does that call centre you rang need to know how tall you are???