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Norway to fine Meta $98,500 a day over user privacy breach from 14 August (www.theguardian.com)
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Norway to fine Meta $98,500 a day over user privacy breach from 14 August::Country’s data protection regulator said firm cannot harvest user information such as physical locations for showing targeted ads

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[–] magnor@lemmy.magnor.ovh 2 points 2 years ago

I wholeheartedly agree with your first point. The second however does baffle me slightly. I'm not from Norway but I would not bet their small businesses are that reliant on targeted ad. But I could very much be wrong.

Actually I'm not sur I understand why targeted ads, in the way Facebook is implementing them anyway, is that beneficial to small businesses. Bigger outfits have the means to litterally crush the small ones in this arena too.