from Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org to technology@beehaw.org on 16 Apr 07:15
https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/32772370
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/32771800
Bits of Freedom, European Digital Rights (EDRi), Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte, and Convocation Design + Research are filing a complaint under the Digital Services Act (DSA) against Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram. According to the complaint, Meta violates the DSA’s user protections by not offering easily accessible news feed options on its platforms that are not based on profiling of users.
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The obligation set out in the DSA is meant to enable people to protect themselves against Meta’s sensationalist and toxic content algorithms. By using deceptive interface designs, Meta makes it unnecessarily difficult for people to choose and keep a content feed that is not based on profiling.
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Well that’s nice. Hopefully they have some teeth, so we don’t have to go through another one of Zuck’s crocodile-tears-fuelled hearings, followed by absolutely fuck-all change 🙄