The Netherlands' digital mininster said the government will be forced to stop using Facebook pages if it doesn't get clarity on its concerns from Meta.
  • The Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) issued a statement advising the government not to use Facebook pages if it doesn’t get clarity on the privacy risks associated with using the platform.
  • Dutch Minister for Digitalization Alexandra van Huffelen said the government will be forced to stop using Facebook pages if it doesn’t get clarity “as soon as possible”.
  • roguetrick@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I’m not discounting their malignancy. What the Dutch seem to want is frankly impossible without end to end encryption, however.

    That’s a fundementally different kind of decentralized social network, where only your “friends” locally get the keys to certain things.

    • pedroapero@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 months ago

      It seems like it is about using public pages to broadcast information. Mastodon seems fairly appropriate for that.

      • roguetrick@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Their concern seems to revolve around the privacy of users that interact with their messages, particularly children.

        Facebook is awful for privacy, but pretty much any social networking solution is also not what I’d consider private. Facebook just likes to pretend that’s not the case.

        The mistake folks make is ever believing that someone will safeguard their data.