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Ex-Meta exec tells Senate Zuck dangled US citizen data in bid to enter China

a year ago by schizoidman to c/technology

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: Former policy boss claims Facebook cared little about national security as it chased the mighty Yuan
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nova_ad_vitum 143 points a year ago

"national security". On Facebook. Okay guys. A better title would be "Zuck offered to completely legally sell their data (yes it's their's , read the ToS) to China in a completely legal bid to gain entry into China. It's not even alleged that he broke any laws.

The real problem is that the US doesn't have any digital data privacy laws, so ToSs for these services can contain whatever the host wants, and they can do whatever they want with the data. But that will never happen.

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alvvayson 48 points a year ago

Bingo.

The idea that CEO's will put morals over profits is hopelessly naive.

If you want companies to act morally, you need to implement legislation and be willing to enforce that legislation. And not small million dollar fines, serious fines like 10% of revenue and personal liability and even jail time for executives.

But the American public only cares about having the stock market go up. They don't care about their data.

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xtr0n 22 points a year ago

Tiktok is considered a National Security threat that must be banned because it will give our data to China. Let’s see if Zucc faces absolutely any consequences. I won’t hold my breath

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ExtantHuman 15 points a year ago

So the exact same reason they tried to ban tiktok...except this one actually happened.

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xavier666 14 points a year ago

Doesn't matter at this point. He'll pay Trump another 1 million dollars and this news will simply vanish.

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Zwuzelmaus 9 points a year ago

sell their data (yes it's their's , read the ToS)

What if the TOS was illegal?

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red_pigeon -3 points a year ago

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