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.
eatham 🇭🇲
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They will just continue, $20mil is nothing to them

There should have been a few more zeros in that fine.

Quokka
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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.

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

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