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Meta accused of ‘massive, illegal’ data collection operation by European consumer rights groups. | CNN Business (edition.cnn.com)

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Meta accused of ‘massive, illegal’ data collection operation by European consumer rights groups. | CNN Business::European consumer rights groups are accusing Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, of carrying out a “massive” and “illegal” operation of collecting data from hundreds of millions of its users in the region.

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[–] veeesix@lemmy.ca 27 points 8 months ago (9 children)

“We are gravely concerned about Meta’s practices,” a spokesperson for the Norwegian Data Protection Authority told CNN Thursday.

And yet Europeans will flock in droves to get everyone and their grandmother to make WhatsApp their default messaging app.

[–] RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I tried so hard getting my family to switch to Signal and they just won't. My mother did though! But we kept having calling issues so we had to switch back to whatsapp for that. Eventually we only used whatsapp again. Nobody else uses Signal and since they removed the functionality to receive text messages in the Signal app, i just removed it. It sucks because i want to use it.

[–] BlackArtist@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

I had the same issue, managed to get my 78 year old mother to swap then they removed text, so now no one in the family will swap.

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