Bill Bennett
Bill Bennett
Facebook scrapes Australia, what about New Zealand?
The ABC’s political reporter Jake Evans:
He writes:
Facebook is scraping the public data of all Australian adults on the platform, it has acknowledged in an inquiry.
The company does not offer Australians an opt out option like it does in the EU, because it has not been required to do so under privacy law
In theory the 2020 Privacy Act means this should not happen in New Zealand, but it probably does.
The Act applies to overseas businesses like Facebook. If they do business in New Zealand they have to comply with local standards over data collected here.
If you’ve got any insight into this please share.
@billbennett Not the first time Zuckerberg has used the Antipodes for testing some odious new plan.
Joshua Leung @ZippyGonzales @billbennett
It's fair to assume the Australian situation is now coming to light as they already ran out of NZ stuff to scrape ages ago 🤪
David Harvey @billbennett I wouldn’t be surprised if we are in on this, as most of the tech companies plonk us in with Australia.
Rhys Jones @billbennett Thanks Bill, I’ll be super interested in what you can find out. As someone who actively avoids Facebook and all their ilk, it galls me that the IRD would so flippantly do this.