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Kevin Collier Mar 23, 2023

For the people who have advocated fruitlessly for years for the US to have any substantial data privacy law, it has to feel like gaslighting to see the country's national security apparatus finally focus on what TikTok collects and then conclude the answer is to ban that one app.

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WowSuchCyber Mar 23, 2023

@kevincollier also, does it means we Europeans should ban all the US social networks?

EDIT: "social network apps"

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enmodo ⚛️ 🧬 🇺🇦 🍉Mar 23, 2023

@WowSuchCyber @kevincollier theoretically all apps that have EU users should be complying with European GDPR regulations in how they handle data from those users.

However I'll wager many social media platforms and clients for those platforms do not do anything of the sort.

It does beg the question - if you run an ActivityPub node with anyone but yourself as a user are you violating GDPR regs? Could an EU user come and sue you?

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WowSuchCyber

@enmodo @kevincollier if your node is not in the eu and if you don't process personal data of eu people, there is no ground. If you follow eu people you will get what their instance pushes to you... I'm a bit confused about the legal basis though because you do not sign a contract or consent to anything when you subscribe. So it will probably be legitimate interest... GDPR vs Mastodon is not really clear yet but it's very doubtful you'd be at risk.