moderately horrifying actually. Facebook has metastasized to the point where it is in some sense an organ of the state (though privately owned/operated at the moment). That the state is now coming to terms with this and actively changing that relationship portends a dark future.
how can that be managed if the provider is also a media company that sells advertisements? if that's the direction it goes then the FB "users are the product, advertisers are the customers" model is being ruled illegal b/c harmful. Maybe that's correct.
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Nah, FB would still sell the data, but it'd become subject to HIPAA-like regulations guaranteeing a degree of anonymity. (What, you thought healthcare providers _weren't_ selling your data?)
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It's common to talk about FB this way but their business model is not selling data, it's using data to sell access to the eyeballs of specific demographics
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