Ben Daubney

> A flaw-by-flaw guide to Facebook's new GDPR privacy changes

Excellent analysis over at Techcrunch. Some of the tricks that Facebook are pulling - both in policy and design - are jaw-dropping:

But the fact that the button to reject the new Terms of Service isn’t even a button, it’s a tiny “see your options” hyperlink, shows how badly Facebook wants to avoid you closing your account. When Facebook’s product designer for the GDPR flow was asked if she thought this hyperlink was the best way to present the alternative to the big “I Accept” button, she disingenuously said yes, eliciting scoffs from the room of reporters. It seems obvious that Facebook is trying to minimize the visibility of the path to account deletion rather than making it an obvious course of action if you don’t agree to its terms.

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