NEWS YOU CAN USE: A flaw-by-flaw guide to Facebook’s new GDPR privacy changes.

Facebook is about to start pushing European users to speed through giving consent for its new GDPR privacy law compliance changes. It will ask people to review how Facebook applies data from the web to target them with ads, and surface the sensitive profile info they share. Facebook will also allow European and Canadian users to turn on facial recognition after six years of the feature being blocked there. But with a design that encourages rapidly hitting the “Agree” button, a lack of granular controls, a laughably cheatable parental consent request for teens and an aesthetic overhaul of Download Your Information that doesn’t make it any easier to switch social networks, Facebook shows it’s still hungry for your data.

Surprising exactly no one, except perhaps for EU regulators.

I’ve just dipped a toe in the water at MeWe, which promises “No Ads. No Tracking. No BS.”

We’ll see.