Ex-Meta exec tells Senate Zuck dangled US citizen data in bid to enter China (www.theregister.com)
from schizoidman@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.world on 11 Apr 03:49
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cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/36089029

Former policy boss claims Facebook cared little about national security as it chased the mighty Yuan

Archived version: archive.is/20250411012250/…/meta_senate_china/

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nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca on 11 Apr 04:07 next collapse

“national security”. On Facebook. Okay guys. A better title would be "Zuck offered to completely legally sell their data (yes it’s their’s , read the ToS) to China in a completely legal bid to gain entry into China. It’s not even alleged that he broke any laws.

The real problem is that the US doesn’t have any digital data privacy laws, so ToSs for these services can contain whatever the host wants, and they can do whatever they want with the data. But that will never happen.

alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 11 Apr 04:50 next collapse

Bingo.

The idea that CEO’s will put morals over profits is hopelessly naive.

If you want companies to act morally, you need to implement legislation and be willing to enforce that legislation. And not small million dollar fines, serious fines like 10% of revenue and personal liability and even jail time for executives.

But the American public only cares about having the stock market go up. They don’t care about their data.

xtr0n@sh.itjust.works on 11 Apr 05:04 next collapse

Tiktok is considered a National Security threat that must be banned because it will give our data to China. Let’s see if Zucc faces absolutely any consequences. I won’t hold my breath

Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org on 11 Apr 05:30 next collapse

sell their data (yes it’s their’s , read the ToS)

What if the TOS was illegal?

[deleted] on 11 Apr 07:44 collapse

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Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org on 11 Apr 09:42 collapse

Why not ?

What do you mean?

What if the TOS was illegal why not ?

Or why not what if the TOS was illegal?

xavier666@lemm.ee on 11 Apr 10:11 next collapse

Doesn’t matter at this point. He’ll pay Trump another 1 million dollars and this news will simply vanish.

ExtantHuman@lemm.ee on 11 Apr 13:22 collapse

So the exact same reason they tried to ban tiktok…except this one actually happened.

jewbacca117@lemmy.world on 11 Apr 04:14 next collapse

What’s a Senate Zuck? Is that the model they use for hearings?

kamenlady@lemmy.world on 11 Apr 05:53 collapse
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world on 11 Apr 13:12 next collapse

Is that treason? Punishable by hanging from a tie?

khannie@lemmy.world on 11 Apr 15:43 collapse

Very first thought was “surely that’s treason”.

I must look up the legal definition.

SplashJackson@lemmy.ca on 11 Apr 13:33 next collapse

Zuck can go suck a fuck!

Euphoma@lemmy.ml on 12 Apr 14:18 collapse

This shouldn’t be surprising to anyone. The only thing meta cares about is money