Dutch government says it may stop using Facebook over privacy concerns The Dutch government said Friday that it may be forced to stop using Facebook after a warning from the Netherlands’ privacy regulator about the Meta-owned social media platform’s privacy risks. The Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) issued a statement advising the Dutch Interior Ministry not to rely on Facebook pages to communicate with citizens if it doesn’t have a clear idea of how Facebook uses the personal data of people who visit government pages. The Interior Ministry had previously asked the DPA to advise on whether the government could use Facebook pages in a compliant way. The government wants clarity from Meta “as soon as possible, at the latest before the summer recess, on how they are addressing our concerns,” Alexandra van Huffelen, the Dutch Minister for Digitalization, said in a statement. “Otherwise, in line with the advice of the DPA, we will be forced to stop our activities on Facebook pages,” she added. The Dutch DPA’s chairman, Aleid Wolfsen, said in a statement that “people who visit a government page trust that their personal and sensitive information is in safe hands.” “The fact that this can also involve information about children and young people makes this even more important. They are vulnerable online and need extra protection,” Wolfsen said in the statement, which was translated to English via Google Translate. A Meta spokesperson told CNBC: “We fundamentally disagree with the assessment that underpins this advice, which is wrong on the facts and demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding as to how our products work.” “We review all Meta products to ensure they comply with laws in the regions in which we offer our services, and will continue to engage with the Government to ensure they can use social media to communicate with people,” the Meta spokesperson added. The DPA advice serves as further evidence of “growing distrust between European regulators and Meta,” Matthew Holman, a tech, privacy, and AI partner at law firm Cripps, told CNBC via email. Holman said that the Dutch regulator’s concern is likely to be that user data “is shared with government departments on Meta’s platform and could still be subject to security issues, monitoring or access by US federal agencies.” News credit CNBC #news #dailynews #socialmedia #viralnews #trandingnews #trending
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Meta, formerly known as Facebook, is in a legal battle with Australia’s privacy regulator, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC), over the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Cambridge Analytica collected data from tens of millions of Facebook users through a personality quiz app called "This is Your Digital Life," installed by only 53 people in Australia, but also collected information from friends who downloaded the app, harvesting data from 311,127 Australian users. The dispute between Meta and the OAIC has been ongoing since 2020, with the OAIC alleging that Meta knew about the risks of the app but failed to take reasonable steps to safeguard users’ information. Meta is defending the claims that they ever shared data with Cambridge Analytica from users outside the US and is questioning the OAIC’s estimate of how many individuals were affected, stating the true number is “substantially lower” than the 311,127 alleged by the OAIC. They are also disputing whether the harvested information is considered “sensitive information” under Australian privacy laws and maintains that although some information was collected without users’ knowledge, the content of private messages was obtained with explicit consent from individuals. Meta maintains that it learned of potential data misuse in December 2015 and promptly investigated and removed the app from their platform and had criticised the OAIC’s case as “embarrassing” and defective”, pointing out failures to properly articulate the privacy principles that were allegedly breached and to specify the “reasonable steps” the platform failed to take. The parties engaged in mediation earlier this year, and the case is expected to return to court next month. Read the full story detailing the update on the Cambridge Analytica scandal below. https://lnkd.in/gQTQ26WM
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The Dutch Government May Say Goodbye To Facebook🫢 The DPA has advised the Interior Ministry against using Facebook pages for public communication until it can verify how user data is managed. Only governments have the power to push big tech to adopt new data governance solutions. One day we will hold our friend connections and post in our own wallet instead of them being taken hostage in a third party walled garden database. The future of social media will witness a shift towards a 'composable' ecosystem. This means, instead of a single dominant brand, we will observe a specialization of independent companies focusing on specific aspects of the platform (such as news feed, private messaging, analytics, privacy violations, etc) that can collaborate seamlessly on a shared ledger. What do you think? #socialmedia #meta #dataprivacy #technews #datagovernance #facebook https://lnkd.in/eyvGN7wZ
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08:00 Thursday 14, 2024 Technology Data Privacy Public Policy Data Privacy Boards, Policy & Regulation US House passes bill to force ByteDance to divest TikTok or face ban March 14, 20243:01 AM GMT+1Updated 5 hours ago WASHINGTON, March 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill on Wednesday that would give TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance about six months to divest the U.S. assets of the short-video app, or face a ban, in the greatest threat to the app since the Trump administration. The bill passed 352-65 in a bipartisan vote, but it faces a more uncertain path in the Senate where some favor a different approach to regulating foreign-owned apps posing security concerns. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said the Senate will review the legislation. The measure is the latest in a series of moves in Washington to respond to U.S. national security concerns about China, from connected vehicles to advanced artificial intelligence chips to cranes at U.S. ports. "This is a critical national security issue. The Senate must take this up and pass it," No. 2 House Republican Steve Scalise said of TikTok on social media platform X. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre added later that the Biden administration also wanted to see "the Senate take swift action." The fate of TikTok, used by about 170 million Americans, has become a major issue in Washington where lawmakers have complained their offices have been flooded with calls from TikTok users who oppose the legislation. TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew, who a source briefed on the matter said is visiting Washington this week, said in a video posted after the vote the legislation if signed into law "will lead to a ban on TikTok in the United States... and would take billions of dollars out of the pockets of creators and small businesses." He added the company will exercise its legal rights to prevent a ban. The bill gives the company 165 days to file a legal challenge after it is signed by President Joe Biden, who said last week he would do so. The political climate in Washington, at a time when many politicians do not want to be seen as soft on China during an election year, increasingly favors the bill. Still, there are concerns about the impact of any ban on younger voters. White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Tuesday asked "Do we want TikTok, as a platform, to be owned by an American company or owned by China? Do we want the data from TikTok - children's data, adults’ data - to be going, to be staying here in America or going to China?" Page 2 continue Giovanna Gonzalez of Chicago demonstrates outside the U.S. Capitol following a press conference by TikTok creators to voice their opposition to the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act," pending crackdown legislation on TikTok in the House of Representatives, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 12, 2024.
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Norway is urging Europe to ban the collection and use of meta-targeted ad data. Concerned about privacy infringement and manipulation, Norway's data protection authority argues that using personal data for targeted advertising undermines individuals' autonomy and can have harmful consequences. This highlights the need for stricter regulations on data collection to ensure privacy protection and avoid exploitation. Read more about the trusted European ally's push for change. #DataPrivacy #OnlineAdvertising #Regulations https://lnkd.in/gH_qhpe9
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📢 Governments and Facebook in the EU: A Complex Relationship 🚨 The Dutch Data Protection Authority (#AP) observes that governments should not rely on online platforms, such as #Facebook due to serious #privacy concerns. This decision comes after a €390 million fine from the Irish DPC to #Meta. With citizens' data privacy at stake, the AP stresses the need for transparency and control over #personaldata and stresses the fact that governments should reconsider using #socialnetworks as a channel for their communications with the citizens. However, a question is not answered: why should EU Governments rely on a foreign private online platform to interact with their citizens? Read more on our blog!
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Dutch Government May Disconnect Facebook Pages Over Privacy Issues The Dutch government is considering discontinuing the use of Facebook Pages due to concerns over data privacy, with a potential exit planned before the upcoming summer recess. This decision is influenced by the advice of the Netherlands' data protection authority, which has raised significant questions about the transparency and insightfulness of data processing on the platform. Alexandra van Huffelen, Dutch state secretary for digital affairs, has been actively engaging with Meta, the parent company of Facebook, to overhaul the way Facebook Pages operate. She stressed the urgency of receiving a satisfactory response from Meta on how it will address these privacy concerns, failing which the government will abandon its use of Facebook Pages. The concerns originated from an assessment by the data protection authority two years ago, which identified major data protection risks associated with the government's use of the service. Despite ongoing negotiations and Meta's efforts to contest these findings, claiming that the privacy assessment was factually incorrect and misunderstood the functionality of their products, the Dutch government has reiterated its stance. Meta spokesperson Matthew Pollard responded, asserting that all Meta products undergo reviews to ensure compliance with local laws, and expressed Meta's intent to continue discussions to enable the government's effective use of social media for public communication. However, the Dutch officials are seeking more transparency and better data handling practices from Meta before making a final decision.
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The US House passed a bill banning TikTok in the US if ByteDance doesn't divest it in six months. Government restriction on private speech is flagrantly unconstitutional IMO, but setting that aside, the impetus is national security fears of Chinese government access to data about Americans ... while the rest of the world should be OK with US government access to data collected by US tech companies. "Yeah, but the US is good and China is bad" is an unprincipled and unpersuasive argument. Recall that the EU was so torqued up about NSA data collection on Europeans that the President had to issue an EO to calm things down. https://lnkd.in/gez9mfuC. I just can't find a policy principle here that doesn't trim fat off the Constitution in service of natsec. We've seen this movie before, as Stellar Wind and PRISM weren't that long ago. A comprehensive federal privacy bill that included a provision barring data access by hostile nation-states would render this whole thing moot. Congress, once again, needs to act on privacy. <article below from Oct 2022>
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It might be time for Federal laws... Google’s doomed social network Buzz led US regulators to force Google and Meta to monitor their own data use. Insiders say the results were mixed, as pressure mounts for a federal privacy law. Before Google’s disastrous social network Google+ came the less remembered Google Buzz. Launched in 2010, Buzz survived less than two years. But its mishandling of people’s personal data motivated the first in a series of legal settlements that, though imperfect, are to this day the closest the US has come to establishing extensive rules for protecting privacy online. https://lnkd.in/giCER23v #Privacy #Data #Tech #privacypolicy #kidsprivacy #datajustice #datalws #AI
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An interesting decision from the Hungarian data protection authority. This is a case from ❗August 2020❗, the main question is whether the publisher of the news site lawfully transferred personal data to the US using Facebook Connect. One should not expect too many surprises, the transfer was not lawful under Schrems II ✅, and the authority explicitly confirms this in the decision ✅. Then, at the end of the decision, the authority concludes that since there is already a DPF at the time of the decision, Meta is on this list, and the transfer is already legal in ❗ 2023 ❗, therefore it terminates the procedure. https://lnkd.in/dQSnFa2c #NAIH #Facebook #SchremsII #NOYB
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