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How Facebook Is Tricking Us Into Accepting GDPR Terms<\/h3>\n
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You log onto Facebook, see a notification and click on it expecting to see that you\u2019ve been tagged in another meme but instead, you\u2019re purposefully misled into immediately signing away your personal data only to find that actually, no one has tagged you in anything and leaving you to question your entire existence (since your friends clearly aren\u2019t real friends if they aren\u2019t tagging your memes right?).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Outrageous right? Well, that\u2019s just one of the claims being brought against Facebook since the implementation of the GDPR legislation last month. European companies are now required to regain any previous consent to use personal data, so understandably this puts tech giants like Facebook in a bit of a tough situation. Facebook survives almost purely on collecting and packaging records of users and handing them over to advertisers. But with this new legislation, they had to find a way to get European users to consent again.<\/p>\n

According to Kieren McCarthy of\u00a0\u2018The Register<\/a>\u2019, its been uncovered that Facebook had \u201ccarefully designed its user interface to make it time-consuming for users to withhold their private information, while repeatedly offering a single button to end the process and give it permission to continue scooping up their personal data\u201d, giving lengthly and \u201cone-sided\u201d arguments as to why we should continue to consent to them accessing and exploiting our data.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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However, this misdirection was taken even further when red circles were used above icons in the top right-hand side of the page, reminiscent of notifications, according to Max Schrems\u2019 latest lawsuit. Once opened users realize that it’s not in fact a notification from a friend but rather a call to re-consent personal data over to Facebook.<\/p>\n

According to the legal file, \u201cthe controller used additional tricks to pressure users. For example, the consent page included two fake red dots that indicated that the user has new messages and notifications, which he\/she cannot access without consent \u2013 even if the user did not actually have such notifications or messages. The only option for a user was therefore to accept the new terms and privacy policy or to delete the account. There was no option to disagree, opt-out or say no in any other way, shape, or form\u201d; therefore violating GDPR as it’s neither fair nor transparent.<\/p>\n

This was just the tip of a seemingly larger iceberg of methods adopted by Facebook which pressured individuals into agreeing to these new terms. So for example \u2013 if EU users didn\u2019t agree to the terms before the deadline, their accounts were blocked right then and there \u2013 without any valid reasoning.<\/p>\n

Another scummy method Facebook used was to make it almost impossible to navigate to the delete option as it would have, in all likelihood, terminated the platform’s access to their data altogether \u2013 the only other option being to agree to these new terms.<\/p>\n

Despite the immense measures gone through to mislead its users, it seems to have also backfired with a lawsuit whereby it’s argued (rightfully so) that \u201cforced consent\u201d is not consent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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