Facebook didn’t determine he was gay, it’s just spray-and-pray by the algorithm exactly like you said. He’s just bringing the court case in bad faith to raise the issue and create another foothold for the EU to extract further billions in fines. The outcome will be more laws so nobody creates anything new in the consumer space or takes any risks that aren’t sanctioned by EU central planners ever again.
Knocking over US big tech companies for fines is literally the fastest growing EU industry by total profits.
I’ve never heard of a malware that tells you exactly what it’s doing with your data upfront.
But anyways, not sure the EU will love it so much once the US finally puts its foot down and the EU capitulates. Unfortunately it’s hard to say no to the only country that will protect your sovereignty (NATO doesn’t work without the US and I’m sure Russia would like to keep going further into Europe).
After that data privacy revenue stream dries up, the only thing left will be the laws and regulations that permanently keep the EU tech industry from ever being competitive with the US or China.
But maybe the ballooning population of European social benefits retirees will pay for themselves? Who needs evil private industry to generate tax revenues when you have bulletproof data privacy over what toilet paper you bought last week. Who can afford the insane risk of somebody creating products that might disclose this highly sensitive data?
Believe it or not surveillance capitalism isn't the only business model out there. Builders and makers may perhaps find something more interesting to do.
Knocking over US big tech companies for fines is literally the fastest growing EU industry by total profits.