Meta’s director of privacy policy declines to say whether such an option would be offered to Australians in the future
    • Neshura@bookwormstory.socialEnglish
      29·
      2 months ago

      I mean they already take part in the Eurovision so why not? Additional bonus: people will have an even harder time differentiating Austria and Australia

      • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
        20·
        2 months ago

        I suggested this once and someone replied “please no you’ll bring the Republicans into the legislature”

      • Mr_Blott@feddit.ukEnglish
        153·
        2 months ago

        Of course!

        Just lose the -

        • Guns

        • Tiny-penis trucks

        • the “right” to hate-speech

        • the religious weirdo thing

        And you’ll be getting close to the 20th century!

          • Mr_Blott@feddit.ukEnglish
            11·
            2 months ago

            You just need to learn Ode to Joy off by heart, and leave all your “cheese” at the border

            • Paradachshund@lemmy.todayEnglish
              3·
              2 months ago

              Moving the goal posts 😥

              Yeah American Cheese the product is some crazy shit. You should try some artisan cheese from Wisconsin, though. World class stuff over there. I had a 15 year cave aged cheddar from there once and I’m still thinking about it to this day.

              • wuphysics87@lemmy.mlEnglish
                11·
                2 months ago

                Excuse me. It’s American cheese food product to you. You uncultured… I mean it uncultured…

      • exu@feditown.comEnglish
        121·
        2 months ago

        Please make sure to implement democracy first, we have enough issues with dictatorships and oligopolies already.

  • geography082@lemm.eeEnglish
    26·
    2 months ago

    WhatsApp is my major concern . It’s a BIG issue that every one in Americas and Europe uses that shit. Very concerning.

  • retrogirl@lemmings.worldEnglish
    203·
    2 months ago

    You CAN opt out of using anything Meta offers. Just don’t use that abusive corporate crap!

    The fact that they really want to disrespect your privacy, scrape every last morsel of anything they can get there grubby mits on for serving you ads, and feed you altered propaganda and shit that they think you should see says volumes about you if you allow them to do that to you. It says a lot about the Australian government too then. Here’s EU taking these greedy corporate monsters to task while Australia is talking about giving them EVEN MORE personal information by trying to enforce ineffective faulty age verification with biometric government issued ID on social media. Just walk away.

  • dan@upvote.auEnglish
    161·
    2 months ago

    Public posts only… Not private posts. Honestly, if you ever post anything publicly on the internet (on any site, including here on Lemmy), you should assume it’s going to be used for all sorts of things.

    I have no doubt that Lemmy posts are part of the data being ingested into AI training. Lemmy and other Fediverse apps are extremely easy to scrape since anyone can subscribe to a Lemmy community, Mastodon account, etc with ActivityPub and get all new posts and comments pushed to them. Don’t even have to actually scrape anything.

  • KellysNokia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    Meta don’t scrape user data…they already have it stored neatly in databases with supporting APIs