Meta announced Monday that it’s rolling out a wave of new AI features on Facebook, the latest sign of the company’s effort to catch up in the AI race and keep users more engaged on the platform.
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cattywampus@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Anything posted to their servers is owned by them. That’s always been the deal. Same with most platforms. Even if you delete your account it’s not like they delete that precious valuable data. You can though request your data to be wiped off some servers, depends on the country.
remotelove@lemmy.ca 19 hours ago
More often than not, GDPR data deletion requests work for just about anyone. Companies don’t really have the time to validate what country you are currently in so these kinds of processes are usually just generic. (It’s a compliance requirement and usually only gets the bare-minimum effort and funding to develop correctly.) Since any company asset is in-scope for compliance regardless of the country, companies that reside in the EEA must also purge any data for servers that may be outside of the country.
It never hurts to attempt a data deletion under the context of GDPR, regardless of your country, is my point.
But just to clarify “it depends on the country”: Of course it does, but the country where the company is based out of, not where their servers are located. (Of course there are one-offs or weird situations. That kind of “data protection” is expensive and reserved for bulk data that companies really need to hide or keep out of scope of compliance.)
cattywampus@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Very fair point. I still have personal doubts about data on foreign servers. Is there a third party actually verifying they are obeying the law?