I have nothing but condemnation for Facebook's (opaque) "Lantern" program and the barely disguised tech cartel it operates under.
We need to have a conversation about whether antitrust legislation is needed here, especially when programs like this come with risks to #privacy and free expression.
Do you trust Facebook with your personal data (from other tech companies)? A "well trusted" custodian of data? Well, that is what Lantern is. A non-consensual transfer of personal data to Facebook on the grounds of it being "suspicious".
I've commented on Lantern before, such as when Facebook commissioned a phoney "human rights assessment" to essentially justify what they wanted to do.
It is opaque. There are terms which appear alarmingly over-broad. It involves companies who have not been competent in handling such things. It appears to be intrusive.
I'm a fairly no nonsense person here, so Facebook operating a platform to sift through other people's data tends to ring alarm bells in my head, *especially* when considering their history when it comes to privacy.
