Recent updates to Meta’s help center reveal the company’s tentative steps towards transparency and user control (or lack thereof) over personal data.

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    1 year ago

    saying that if I don’t create an account then they will do it for me

    I would report the hell out of them, both to Facebook and HR. That’s literally the definition of identity theft.

    Although the point is kind of moot - because of all the people who know you, that do willingly share their everything (including their phone contacts, photos etc), Facebook already has a You-shaped hole, even if you don’t have an account.

    So when I got pressured into creating a Facebook account (not as badly as you were though), I was so creeped out by the amount of data they already had on me, I immediately deleted my account. It felt like being invited into someone’s home for the first time and seeing a stalker shrine dedicated to yourself.

    “it’s okay, I do this with everyone.”

    No, it really is not.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, it’s hilarious :( I have no idea how that’s legal under GDPR. So that’s why I’m part of the small group of WhatsApp-resisting signal users in my country.