Mastodon MigrationApr 27, 2023

When you post on Twitter(1) or Bluesky(2) you grant them a broad perpetual license to use, modify, and sublicense your content. You effectively make them co-owners of your content. They can mine it and monetize it. They can even sell it. When you post on Mastodon(3) most instances take no license at all. That's right, they tell you what they are doing with your content—storing posts and delivering them—but no license.

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#twittermigration #TermsOfService #PrivacyPolicy #ContentLicense

Show threadAdrian MoralesApr 28, 2023

@mastodonmigration Here in Europe, personal data includes any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. This means that even the most basic contact information, such as business card details or simply a name and email address, falls under the General Data Protection Regulation.
It's why Facebook, for instance, has been fined millions of euros.

I hope the U.S. will follow suit.

Show threadAutisticMumTo3
@adrianmorales @mastodonmigration
I bet the Tories here in the UK will use Brexit to back out of that if they haven't already and we haven't been told.
Apr 28, 2023 at 1:41pmWeb
Show threadJ$Apr 28, 2023
@AutisticMumTo3 @adrianmorales @mastodonmigration Yes, as of #brexit you are entirely unprotected by EU regulations, whether they concern data privacy (GDPR), food safety, or any other. The Tories will not use brexit to back out, they have used brexit and have backed out. Sorry.
Show threadJetlagJenApr 29, 2023

@js @AutisticMumTo3 @adrianmorales @mastodonmigration

Apart from all the EU regulations that were enshrined in national law, being how EU regulations typically work. The Data Protection Act 2018 did that for GDPR, and it didn't disappear with brexit because DPA 2018 is a UK law.

This is why the Tories were pushing the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill rolling back all the EU regulations that got written into UK law.