Post · bonfire.cafe

Electronic Frontier Foundation

@eff@mastodon.social 7 hr. ago

A settlement supposedly designed to protect young people will require Meta to do even more surveillance—estimating users’ ages, hunting for secondary accounts, and enforcing sweeping restrictions. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/metas-17-billion-settlement-bad-deal-teens-and-all-social-media-users

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Meta's $17 Billion Settlement is a Bad Deal for Teens and All Social Media Users

Meta’s settlement with 52 state attorneys general is a bad deal for all internet users, and especially for teens. That’s what we said the day the settlement was announced.In this post, we go through the Settlement’s provisions in detail and explain why that is so, including how:The Settlement...

2 Replies

0 Boosts

@MisuseCase@twit.social 2 hr. ago

@eff Meta really did “please don’t throw me in the briar patch” with that settlement.

@msb@mastodon.sdf.org 4 hr. ago

@eff $16B is a small price to pay for the data they will be able to coerce out of their users under the guise of age verification.

Log in