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Dutch government says it may stop using Facebook over privacy concerns

www.cnbc.com Dutch government says it may stop using Facebook over privacy concerns

The Netherlands' digital mininster said the government will be forced to stop using Facebook pages if it doesn't get clarity on its concerns from Meta.

The Dutch government said Friday that it may be forced to stop using Facebook after a warning from the Netherlands’ privacy regulator about the Meta owned social media platform’s privacy risks.

The Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) issued a statement advising the Dutch Interior Ministry not to rely on Facebook pages to communicate with citizens if it doesn’t have a clear idea of how Facebook uses the personal data of people who visit government pages.

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Dutch government says it may stop using Facebook over privacy concerns

www.cnbc.com /2024/04/19/dutch-government-may-stop-using-facebook-after-privacy-concerns.html

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Good. Also you shouldn’t need a relationship with a corporation (account) to get information from government agencies…
- You don't. They're usually posting awareness campaigns that link to government sites.
  I've opted the example to elsewhere, but they'd be like "bought a house? Find out how the taxes work on (link)"
  
  It depends on the government I suppose. US National Weather Service offices posts bunch of weather info exclusively to Twitter (and sometimes Facebook).
  
  Can you read posts on Facebook without an account? Last time I tried it wasn't possible.

Good. Start your own Mastodon instance exclusively for government accounts, and let users subscribe to those accounts from other instances.
Bonus is that you get RSS feeds for every account on Mastodon.
- The Dutch govt is way ahead of you on that one.

so should everyone.

Philippines should be next. Unfortunately the lack of net neutrality allows our telcos to literally provide unlimited text-only Facebook access for free, like wtf...
- Free at the cost of user data being trashed out. DOST servers could host a Mastodon instance.

W Dutchland
- Deutschland uber alles.
  
  That's the wrong Dutch

Thank god, governments (local and larger) should not be using Facebook as a sole/primary means of communication.
It's infinitely frustrating that my own municipality makes announcements and shares public information on a platform that is not always accessible to the residents that constitute that municipality.
Information should be shared on the official municipality website in the same manner, and copied over to Facebook for ease of access to those who use it.

I left it back in November when they forced me to either pay or accept. That said, we need a replacement for facebook, that is made for the EU and by the EU. Sure fediverse is great, but it still is a niche social media for us nerds.
We need the Facebook styled feed that 60+ year olds feel comfortable scrolling through, instead of the Reddit wannabe format
- I have no need for this in my life, so I'm not sure about the specifics. But isn't diaspora fediverse and supposed to be more like Facebook, rather than microblogging or lemmy?

Great news. Treat all social media equally.

Unfortunately the tech-illiterate heads that control DOST would reject such proposal.

You are late!

But... They said that privacy is the most important thing for them 0_0 https://about.meta.com/actions/protecting-privacy-and-security/

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