Richard Gaywoodthe eu is at war with meta over user privacy, and gruber has picked a side
Alessio Maffeis@penllawen it’s not a war, and Meta chose to delay the launch in EU. But what is the privacy risk it’s being averted in this specific case? Instagram sharing data with… Instagram? 🤨
🟦🧙🏻simp@maffeis @penllawen
This has been discussed (philosophically and legally in 2021): Facebook‘s entities in the EU are not allowed to share data between each other for their own purposes, without demonstrating clearly defined legitimate interests (which they could not in the past). There are two options for Facebook to start sharing data between entities: Bribe EU antitrust watchdogs (they come rather cheap, I hear), or breaking up.
This has been discussed (philosophically and legally in 2021): Facebook‘s entities in the EU are not allowed to share data between each other for their own purposes, without demonstrating clearly defined legitimate interests (which they could not in the past). There are two options for Facebook to start sharing data between entities: Bribe EU antitrust watchdogs (they come rather cheap, I hear), or breaking up.
@shinjiikarus @penllawen yeah, but the difference here sounds purely academic (I don't even think they setup a new legal entity for Threads, but I might be wrong). They could ship the very same thing as a feature in the main Instagram app and that would not be a problem.