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Imo it's about using instagram data for threads(following same people). Gdpr is not the case since gdpr is also in uk and threads work there
The UK is working on a separate data protection law and the attitude towards privacy is very different from the EU (hence the rewrite)
I have never met a single normal person in my life who uses twitter
Maybe you should meet more people then
They use Twitter to intimidate others and promote their clique.
I find that the only people worth reading are the independently minded ones who don't care what others think. In the current climate, they are either journalists or independently wealthy.
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> Gdpr is not the case since gdpr is also in uk and threads work there Not threads.net I guess the app works? But why not the website too? (Or does the website also do nothing in the US?)
that's strange, bc website works in Romania(EU) (to view other's tweets) so i guess it's maybe some error at MVP stage)
Tbh if you are concerned about the privacy and ethics concerns here the biggest red flag is in the subtitle: Meta's Twitter rival launched in over 100 countries today—but not in the EU Anything more is simply detail - if a major launch of this sort of service omits the EU we immediately know exactly why.
Don't jump to conclusions. They're likely not launching in EU because EU requires user data be stored in EU, and their current launch stack is hosted elsewhere, look at this datacenter map of Meta: https://datacenters.atmeta.com/ They're mostly in the US, and most outside the EU. Given the record timeline from concept to launch for this app, it's normal they can't whip up a datacenter from nothing overnight.
Tbh if you are concerned about the privacy and ethics concerns here the biggest red flag is in the subtitle: Meta's Twitter rival launched in over 100 countries today—but not in the EU Anything more is simply detail - if a major launch of this sort of service omits the EU we immediately know exactly why.
Don't jump to conclusions. They're likely not launching in EU because EU requires user data be stored in EU, and their current launch stack is hosted elsewhere, look at this datacenter map of Meta: https://datacenters.atmeta.com/ They're mostly in the US, and most outside the EU. Given the record timeline from concept to launch for this app, it's normal they can't whip up a datacenter from nothing overnight.
I kinda assume that Meta could do this if they wanted. Their Instagram and Facebook comments are legal and available in the EU no problem.
Tbh if you are concerned about the privacy and ethics concerns here the biggest red flag is in the subtitle: Meta's Twitter rival launched in over 100 countries today—but not in the EU Anything more is simply detail - if a major launch of this sort of service omits the EU we immediately know exactly why.
100% agree with this and the other post, the biggest red flag is "Meta". Whoever thought something good and user-first would come out of this wannabe Twitter killer is completely naive. I expect that federation won't last and there's 2 things that can happen, either Meta decides it's not worth it, or they will find a way to draw out most of federated users and then deal a killing blow to the fediverse. I was skeptica…
Also, interesting to see a big international company actually back up their "we just won't do europe then"
Man I hate these alarmist hit pieces. - "You cant delete Threads without deleting Instagram altogether": but you can deactivate it. What's the difference, and why do I care? Without including that info, you're useless. - "Threads collects sensitive personal information about you": How? Inferred from the things I post? Well I'll just not post those things. - "Threads collects data about your employment": Same. - "Thre…
The first stock market bubble in 2000 partly burst because investors realized that large user numbers by themselves were worthless.
Then other monetization schemes were discovered ...
The data collected by the Threads app could include your sexual orientation, race and ethnicity, biometric data, trade union membership, pregnancy status, politics, and religious beliefs. This data may potentially be sent to “service providers” and “analytics partners,” which is often code for third-party advertising and marketing firms.
Threads collects data about your employment
Information about your company, your role on your team, your job history, and your performance evaluations may be collected and sent to third parties.
Threads collects data about your body
Details about your health, fitness, and exercise may be hoovered up to be sent to third parties.
Threads collects data about your web activity
Threads may scour your browsing history, web page interactions (including with ads), and the referring web page or source through which you accessed Threads links. This information may be sent to third parties as well.
Threads collects data about your location
Photos, videos, or other recordings of a user’s environment, as well as “IP-address-based location information,” may be collected and sent to third parties.
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1. How does it access biometric data?
2. How does it access your performance evaluations?
3. How does it access your browsing history?
4. How does it access "photos, videos, or other recordings of a user’s environment"?
If the answer to this is that it extracts information from the things you post, mining the data of your threads over years and extracting a profile, then that isn't that big of a privacy invasion -- especially if you post publicly.
If the answer is that they activate the camera without you knowing, that they bypass security features to access browser history and biometric data, and that they... I don't even know how they'd access performance evaluations, then that's a different question and less of a privacy issue and more of a computer misuse issue.
Does anyone know the answer to this?
Perhaps it's time for phone cameras & microphones to have hardware lights next to them like Macs do.
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But we don’t need Twitter for that do we? We have 4chan, parts of the fediverse and so on for unfiltered. Threads is for mainstream. I don’t see that as bad. As someone who was a moderator, sometimes you want that sandwich and not Joe Schmoe stupid verbal trash he thought less than 3 seconds about.