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Meta enables de-identified authentication at scale

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People are going to shit on this because it's coming from Facebook (pardon me, Meta). And you know what? They're right to. Facebook has proven time and time again that it's wildly disinterested in being a good actor; this is like the man who burgled your house last year coming over to sell you a security system, promising he's gone clean.

Heck, maybe this works wonderfully, and there's a mathematical proof of it. But if you shit in my well, you don't get to sell me bottled water.

> if you shit in my well, you don't get to sell me bottled water.

Brilliant.

The very first sentence in the article:

> Data minimization — collecting the minimum amount of data required to support our services — is one of our core principles at Meta as we continue developing new privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs).

Who do these people think they're fooling? Quit it with the bullshit. Stop trying to make metaverse happen, stop trying to fake it til you make it, it's patronizing, it's off putting, it's condescending, you're disconnected from reality if you think anyone in the universe believes that sentence.

“Data minimization — collecting the minimum amount of data required to support our services — is one of our core principles at Meta…”

Yeah, right.

They don't say just how much data that is...so it isn't the biggest lie facebook has told.

Best example on how politicians and big techs prevaricate.

Lovely little example of a completely meaningless statement that sounds good only superficially. Since they can always claim that "minimum amount" required includes nearly anything they can grab about users or non-users because "engagement" or whatever technical argument they decide to shit out, any quantity of data vampirism can be perfectly justified by the internal logic of their claim.

I suppose this is just the strategy now with the re-branding. Facebook stole as much data as possible but at Meta a core principle has always been to steal as little data as we possible can. If we say it enough times then it must be true.

I'm sure they actually do consider data minimization, but only when data collection stands in the way of getting users into the product.

It seems that the use-cases of de-identified authentication are very limited and apply mostly for situations where you don‘t need authentication at all by just stopping the data collection?!

Is the hidden subtext here that 3rd party websites can now 'login with Facebook' without running afoul of GDPR and other privacy laws?

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