This isn't a user privacy breach. Recommending posts is a core functionality of social media. People understand that the site learns your interest. It's not a privacy breach if TikTok learns you like watching piano videos. Nor is it a privacy breach if X learns you like to see posts from artists.
The issue at hand isn't their recommender system for content, it's that they use the same recommender system for ads, which is apparently illegal in Norway.
As I understand it, it's legal to offer recommender systems for personalized content suggestions, but you cannot do the same for personalized ads.
Just because its been imposed as a "standard" for so long before anyone objected doesn't make it a core functionality of social media. Sites don't need to learn my interest by profiling me like the Stasi.
Just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean it’s not the core functionality. If you don’t want a personalized feed why are you using Facebook in the first place? They don’t really do anything else.
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This isn't a user privacy breach. Recommending posts is a core functionality of social media. People understand that the site learns your interest. It's not a privacy breach if TikTok learns you like watching piano videos. Nor is it a privacy breach if X learns you like to see posts from artists.
The issue at hand isn't their recommender system for content, it's that they use the same recommender system for ads, which is apparently illegal in Norway.
As I understand it, it's legal to offer recommender systems for personalized content suggestions, but you cannot do the same for personalized ads.
In EU and areas that conform with the EU laws: EEA (which Norway is part of), Switzerland etc.
And for now presumably the UK, which still has GDPR in law.
Just because its been imposed as a "standard" for so long before anyone objected doesn't make it a core functionality of social media. Sites don't need to learn my interest by profiling me like the Stasi.
Just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean it’s not the core functionality. If you don’t want a personalized feed why are you using Facebook in the first place? They don’t really do anything else.