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Tech companies like Google, Facebook and Microsoft are ignoring data controls mandated under California privacy law at ‘industrial scale’ (globalprivacyaudit.org)
submitted 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) by Deep@mander.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] Babalugats@feddit.uk 27 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

Despite the general and indiscriminate scanning of people’s messages not being legal in the EU

Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Snap have already signaled in a joint statement to “continue to take voluntary action on our relevant Interpersonal Communication Services.” Whether this indicates continued scanning of our private communication is not entirely clear, but what is clear is that such activity would now risk breaching EU law. Then again, lack of compliance with EU data protection and privacy rules is nothing new for big tech in Europe.

It is utterly insane that any company thinks that they can ignore laws from at least two different continents and not only think they will get away with it, but are getting away with it, and doing it so blatantly, impetuously and with impunity.

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 10 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

They don't think. They know. They have carefully weighed the likeliness of repercussions vs to the profit to be made from doing it anyway. They have also weighed how likely it is they will face legal action and what the legal action will cost them. They have also also stacked the deck against the common user and any legislators that might want to hold them accountable through lobbying and other forms of coercion or bribery.

This is a well calculated "risk" vs reward for them.

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 1 points 3 hours ago

I think they will get their noses bloodied sooner or later, and well deserved too

[–] borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Wait, hasn’t the EU also been pushing for mandatory scanning of people’s messages FoR tHe cHiLdrEn?

Or were they just pushing for a backdoor in the encryption to enable selective scanning at a massive scale?

[–] Babalugats@feddit.uk 7 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

That's what the article linked is about. it was rejected, but Google, meta, snap etc.. said that they're going to scan anyway.