ITT: omg how other people don’t see what I, a very smart and superior person who browses technology communities, have known for years
we should be celebrating that privacy issues are gaining more and more mainstream coverage.
Wow you’re so smarmt
In other news, the sky is blue.
We need you Lina Khan. We need you, but stronger, faster, better. Let’s fucking go.
People in this thread don’t seem to understand how anti big business the FTC has been since Lina Khan was appointed. These reports are meant to be used by congress to help guide real policy. It’s one thing to just assume social media is violating privacy, it’s another thing to have a facts-based report on exactly what is currently happening.
Of course the FTC needs new laws to do any enforcement and there’s probably not enough anti corporation politicians to pass laws that give them real teeth on data privacy issues.
That’s literally the sales pitch to investors, and has been for decades.
Yeah, no shit!
Holy shit! For real?..
This is why I’m slowly migrating to the Fediverse.
Fuck social media companies.
We’re watching you too.
Now, entertain us, we are bored.
Yep, all they gotta do is well, very little.
They don’t say.
So this is why I switched to the fediverse. But to be honest, I have no idea if someone does things like that here or not. All my posts are public to everyone and machine readable. The only thing which would prevent someone of survailing users on the fediverse is it’s very small scale. It is probably just not worth the effort.
Gotta wonder why they’re saying this now? What’s the agenda?
Lina Khan actually takes action against companies unlike many of her predecessors.
The new-ish Federal Trade Commission head has been making a push to work on quite a few projects for the past couple of years. They have a very small resources and man-power compared to the war chests of multibillion dollar companies, but recently, somehow managed to bring charges against Google as a monopoly. This in my opinion is a good thing. I consider myself a social liberal and a fiscal conservative. I don’t like how our government seems to take the money of these companies and turn a blind eye as they do what they want in pursuit of the almighty dollar. I support her endeavors working for the interests of the majority of people and not those few with the most money.
Have you considered that the answers you seek may be in the article?
Getting as much done as they can before the election in case Trump wins, I think
Allow me to reveal my age by saying… No, duh!!!
Eat my shorts
And?