The European data regulator has agreed to extend a ban imposed by non-EU member Norway on "behavioural advertising" on Facebook and Instagram to cover all 30 countries in the European Union and the European Economic Area, it said on Wednesday.
All data collection is a problem, because why isn’t the user getting paid. The corpos are making bank off the data, the users should get a majority of that slice.
Users get a service, so it can be argued they are paid in kind. That’s the price of their “free” services.
Whether you agree with that or not, websites are unlikely to pay users to use their services (unless they’re at least providing content) any more than a coffee shop would pay its customers to drink their coffee.
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Which is why this regulation is targeting the very reason why for-profit companies are bothering with data collection?
All data collection is a problem, because why isn’t the user getting paid. The corpos are making bank off the data, the users should get a majority of that slice.
Users get a service, so it can be argued they are paid in kind. That’s the price of their “free” services.
Whether you agree with that or not, websites are unlikely to pay users to use their services (unless they’re at least providing content) any more than a coffee shop would pay its customers to drink their coffee.
Why do you think Meta is collecting the data?
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