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A statement from EFF Senior Counsel @davidgreene about today's Meta settlement:
“Young users will now have less access to Meta products, and a lesser ability to exercise their rights to speak, access information and art and culture, associate and form communities, and play. The settlement also embeds age assurance into every product, mandating the collection of even more personal information from users of all ages." (1/2)
@eff Or, hear me out, everything Meta is shit, interacting with it is likely to make your life worse, and sane and sensible people should avoid it. Perhaps it's good if it's frustrating or unreachable by people most at risk of being harmed by it, as THERE ARE BETTER ALTERNATIVES.
At some point, we have to accept that we cannot make the sewers child-safe, no matter what we do.
It's dispiriting to me that this statement seems to treat Meta like an essential human resource. IT ISN'T.
“This enshrines Meta's harmful surveillance into law, and it will compromise users' privacy and anonymity while increasing their exposure to data breaches and government data requests. And the data minimization and security measures don’t keep states from using data collected under the agreement for other law enforcement purposes – which could include things like criminal investigations of abortions or gender-affirming care.” (2/2)
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