Privacy Groups File FTC Complaint Over Facebook, WhatsApp Data Sharing

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While I think this is a pretty janky move, you do have thirty days to opt out of data sharing. There is always the option of just not using Facebook or WhatApp as well, that seems to work pretty good too. ;)


Some consumer privacy watchdog groups have filed a formal complaint with the FTC, asking them to look into it. The complaint (PDF) comes from the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD). The groups ask the FTC to investigate the new terms that Facebook and WhatsApp have set, saying it constitutes “an unfair and deceptive trade practice,” which is the legal term for all those misleading things the FTC’s responsible for quashing.
 
No sympathy here; put your information out there, you have already lost control of it. People need to quit acting like they have been wronged and start taking responsibility for their own actions. None of these companies can be trusted in any way; users are the product, their digital lives are what's being sold and traded and only an idiot would believe otherwise these days. If you are fine with that, then great, but if not, then stop making it a problem.

How many stories like this do people need before they wake up?
 
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