Charging Aussies to use Facebook and Instagram? Meta won’t rule it out if ‘extreme’ privacy reforms are adopted
Social media giant Meta won’t rule out charging users to access Facebook and Instagram should “extreme” proposed privacy reforms be adopted by the government.
The extraordinary suggestion was more a gentle warning than a pointed salvo, but the company is concerned enough about the Attorney-General’s wide-ranging Privacy Act probe that it has sent a senior executive to Australia for meetings.
Melinda Claybaugh, director of privacy policy for Meta, broadly supports the modernisation of existing legislation and led the development of Meta’s lengthy submission to the Commonwealth, which is released today.
Ha ha ha! Charging for Facebook? Empty threats.
Most of what Meta does on privacy already it only does so because GDPR forced them to (eg right to export and delete your data)
Aussies deserve the same protections as the UK and EU citizens. Cavalier use of our data has already led to a number of horrendous breaches and more are to come or have not been reported.
We need GDPR equivalence now – for consumers and for businesses so they up their game.
If “extreme proposed privacy reforms be adopted by the government”, then my private information would be more valuable to Meta.
So I won’t rule out charging Facebook and Instagram for access to my private information.
Web3 might well see off Meta. We shall see. There is some enormous value with Meta and I am perplexed why Zuck and his merry minions haven’t tapped into it and created a business out of it. Madness tbf!?!
Charging to use Facebook? Ask Elon how that’s going for Twitter at the moment. Social media is cheap entertainment, until it’s not cheap. Then people leave.
Bad enough with all the adds on Facebook now but if you decide to charge us for the use of same I for one will delete my account and I know plenty of other people who will do the same