# Privacy is fundamental to Humane Tech (and Democracy)!

**URL:** https://community.humanetech.com/t/privacy-is-fundamental-to-humane-tech-and-democracy/1669
**Category:** Privacy
**Tags:** privacy, business-model, ad-based, addiction, activism
**Created:** [April 2, 2018, 9:20am UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/privacy-is-fundamental-to-humane-tech-and-democracy/1669 "2018-04-02T09:20:04Z")
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### Author: ![aschrijver](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/community.humanetech.com/aschrijver/32/1498_2.png) [@aschrijver](https://community.humanetech.com/u/aschrijver)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2018, 8:34am UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/privacy-is-fundamental-to-humane-tech-and-democracy/1669/20 "2018-04-19T08:34:29Z")

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Thanks for sharing! Yea, this was already in the line of expectation. The good part of the upcoming GDPR is that for Europeans certain privacy settings will be opt-in, while for the rest of the world they will be opt-out, like new automatic facial recognition facilities, that - when enabled - kick in on all images FB can lay their hands on.

It remains to be seen how Facebook will package this opt-in setting, though. Also in the line of expectation is that they will apply some [dark pattern](http://community.humanetech.com/t/identifying-dark-patterns-on-the-web/1761) to make this seem really attractive, or no real choice at all. Let’s be watchful and see what they come up with.

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