Facebook's to pay $550 million over face recognition misuse

31 January 2020
Facebook says it's in the company's and shareholders' best interest to settle.

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  • Anonymous
  • uSW
  • 31 Jan 2020

All that whining about privacy. Don't you people voluntarily enter everything about your life on Facebook? Your vacation, what you just ate, photos of everyone you love and your pets, your car, your endless thoughts, and where you are every minute and every hour? If you care about your privacy then don't be on Facebook. Facebook is not mandatory.

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    • AnonD-834088
    • mHe
    • 31 Jan 2020

    Facebook supposed to be for keeping in touch,ok,so what's wrong with the old fashioned way,calls texts and emails,going online is never safe and never will be, Facebook is a privacy killer,always will be !

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      • Anonymous
      • KSu
      • 31 Jan 2020

      What can you expect from Facebook!!!
      Snowden and Assange have already said how Facebook and others are nothing but surveillance companies masquerading as social media companies.

      Alexa and Google assistant will be paying similar fines for misuse in a few years as well.

        $500 bln - $500 mln = nice profit for Suckerberg.

        Someone should be in prison for it. Maybe Suckerberg's wife?

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          • Aadrian
          • S3$
          • 31 Jan 2020

          No I don't remember they started tagging me on photos in 2001. Oh wait, I luckily don't have facebook.

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            • Anonymous
            • 8tK
            • 31 Jan 2020

            So what's that, a couple of weeks of Facebook's Ad earnings? That'll surely teach em to misuse our data henceforth!

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              • Anonymous
              • gFj
              • 31 Jan 2020

              origon, 31 Jan 2020If someone takes MY PERMISSION to beat me up? Dont care abo... moreyea and they most probbably do it even without your consent

                Anonymous, 31 Jan 2020So if someone beats you to near death, its all cool as long... moreIf someone takes MY PERMISSION to beat me up? Dont care about the money. But if you give your permission to someone to to something to you then why complain later? The fact that they did this without permission was the problem.

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                  • Anonymous
                  • 7Ae
                  • 31 Jan 2020

                  origon, 31 Jan 2020They paid a fine 550 million and now they have TO ASK for y... moreSo if someone beats you to near death, its all cool as long as they pay some money each time they get caught doing it

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                    • Anonymous
                    • 7Ae
                    • 31 Jan 2020

                    origon, 31 Jan 2020They operate it with YOUR PERMISSION thats the difference. I think the point being made is ethics mean nothing as long as you have money

                      AnonD-908380, 31 Jan 2020They are STILL operating and this is not the first time the... moreThey operate it with YOUR PERMISSION thats the difference.

                        Peanuts compared to what the big blue whale is worth

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                          • AnonD-908380
                          • nfy
                          • 31 Jan 2020

                          origon, 31 Jan 2020They paid a fine 550 million and now they have TO ASK for y... moreThey are STILL operating and this is not the first time they have done stuff like this. They got away with it. A fine is not going to stop them.

                            AnonD-908380, 31 Jan 2020Apparently we can put a price on our privacy. How can th... moreThey paid a fine 550 million and now they have TO ASK for your permission to do this again. They didnt get away with this.

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                              • AnonD-908380
                              • nfy
                              • 31 Jan 2020

                              Apparently we can put a price on our privacy.

                              How can they get away with this, everytime...