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noorbeast@lemmy.zip to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years ago

Meta subsidiaries ordered to pay $20 million to Australian government over 'misleading' ads for security app

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Meta subsidiaries ordered to pay $20 million to Australian government over 'misleading' ads for security app

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noorbeast@lemmy.zip to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years ago
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Free security app 'knows nearly everything' about users, court told as Facebook owners Meta fined $20m
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The Federal Court hears Meta used a free security app promoted as protecting data but the tech giant used it to find out "nearly everything" users were doing on their devices.
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  • eatham 🇭🇲@aussie.zone
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    They will just continue, $20mil is nothing to them

    • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
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      There should have been a few more zeros in that fine.

      • Quokka@quokk.au
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        The government has taken your feedback and to show its goodwill has revised the fee to $000,000,000,0002.00.

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    Can we use propper x-posting? You might as well as it is built into Lemmy

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    A drop in the bucket for these blokes sadly. Fines this small don’t encourage change, they’re just the price for doing business

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