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Meta accused of ‘massive, illegal’ data collection operation by European consumer rights groups. | CNN Business (edition.cnn.com)

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Meta accused of ‘massive, illegal’ data collection operation by European consumer rights groups. | CNN Business::European consumer rights groups are accusing Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, of carrying out a “massive” and “illegal” operation of collecting data from hundreds of millions of its users in the region.

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[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Leaving Facebook is not as difficult as i feared and expected. I did it back in October when they introduced paid unreasonable subscriptions (that still would track anything i did) and asked for my account to be deleted yesterday when they forced new privacybpolicy to messenger (or the option to create a new non facebook messenger account).

The hardest part was finding online communities about my hobbies. But then you realize that the online communities on Facebook are mostly toxic or spam content.

When in finally did find the place where you can delete your account (thianis quite well hidden) in was even given the option of tramsferimg all my pictures and videos over to cloud storage services like Dropbox, Google photos etc.

They will procedebwith the account deletion within 30 daysnand i am quite happy to finally have left the platform and it's sister platforms. In had planned non using what's app for messaging but realized that itbalsonis owned by meta and that if they don't already track me there, they eventually will