Capitalists don't care if something is legal or not. Just how much the fine will impact their bottom line. And if anyone can prove it. I 100 percent guarantee you that every major tech company is technically in violation of the GDPR etc. it's just a matter of whether or not it will ever be provable enough to be actionable.

The data is out there. Meta does not need threads to scrape it is the basic thing to take away.

[–] BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social -1 points 11 months ago

It's publicly sitting on the internet.

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

That's actually the most interesting concern I've seen raised about this. I hadn't thought about that. The embrace, extend, extinguish thing is what you see most people raise as a issue.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 3 points 11 months ago

All your stuff is already public on the internet without any special access being granted. If they want the convenience of receiving ActivityPub packets and metadata, they can just stand up a honeypot instance and some fake accounts. The Fediverse isn't built for privacy.

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 3 points 11 months ago

that's even worse than I imagined it :O

[–] Carter@feddit.uk 2 points 11 months ago

They don't need to federate to do that.

[–] 0x1C3B00DA@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

They don't need ActivityPub for that. Nearly everything on the fediverse is public and scrapable. If they want to monetize fediverse data, they already can

[–] BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social 0 points 11 months ago

Meta also doesn't need to federate in order to do that, since federation just accesses public data.