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Meta illegally collected data from Flo period and pregnancy app, jury finds (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 day ago by misk@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.zip

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 67 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is not about just the data, they were found guilty of fucking eavesdropping. I can't wait to see people defending this as not being true for advertising. Please bookmark this article everyone. That headline is crap.

Plaintiffs in a class-action case proved by a preponderance of evidence that Meta intentionally eavesdropped on and/or recorded conversations using an electronic device, said a verdict form released yesterday in US District Court for the Northern District of California. Plaintiffs also proved that they had a reasonable expectation of privacy and that Meta did not have consent from all parties to eavesdrop on and/or record the conversations, the jury found.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There are much more effective ways of surveillance...

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Such as?

[–] Jivebunny@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'd bookmark it if it did something. it's not visible at all for seo to the outside world.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 points 17 hours ago

We've got a lot of really smart people here, some are journalists. These people go around telling other people and now have links to sources. Why do you think the trolls come here?

It's good to have this as a back up when the techbro trolls try to say they don't really listen for ads or data farming. This happened just a few weeks ago, but I couldn't find a link.