The European Data Protection Board said Wednesday it had adopted a binding decision that will ban Facebook and Instagram owner Meta from using the personal data of users for targeted advertisements.
The order will "impose a ban on the processing of personal data for behavioural advertising on the...
From now on, our news will only be published on our community Mastodon channel and Matrix room.
Bye bye 👋
https://fosstodon.org/@techsaviours
https://matrix.to/#/#news:techsaviours.org
TL;DR (if you can’t be bothered reading all of the below) - Fosstodon will wait and see what happens, but if Facebook’s new service introduces any issues that could negatively impact our users, we will defederate.
Meta’s new Twitter rival wants to suck Instagram users’ data, including health, location, search history and sensitive information, into the new Threads service. Under EU data privacy rules, it faces higher hurdles than in the US or UK, where it has launched
Meta will not launch its new Twitter ri...
Facebook's parent company Meta has been fined a record $1.3 billion by European Union data protection regulators for transferring the personal data of users in the region to the U.S.
In a binding decision taken by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), the social media giant has been ordered t...