Brazil has its own version of the GDPR called LGPD (Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais) and experts versed in it have drawn concerns about Meta's social network not being compliant to the regulation.
There's a screenshot from the list of "linked personal data" from the app and it contains: health and workout related data, financial information, contact information, purchase history, location data, personal contacts, confidential information, among others.
They don't explain any of these and the experts called it out because it violates at least 3 points from the Brazilian GDPR:
- it doesn't state the necessity and goal to collect this amount of personal data
- it doesn't ask the users for their consent on having their data used for marketing purposes or sharing it with other companies
- it doesn't allow you to use the social network unless you consent to having your data collected
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They don't explain any of these and the experts called it out because it violates at least 3 points from the Brazilian GDPR:
- it doesn't state the necessity and goal to collect this amount of personal data
- it doesn't ask the users for their consent on having their data used for marketing purposes or sharing it with other companies
- it doesn't allow you to use the social network unless you consent to having your data collected