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Post #1852660
2026-05-01 17:18 UTC
Replies (4)
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@revk@toot.me.uk 2026-05-01 17:32
@fediversereport not surprised @neil was quoted in that!
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@matthewcroughan@social.defenestrate.it 2026-05-01 17:39
So uh, what about email?
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@tokensane@mastodon.me.uk 2026-05-01 18:46
@fediversereport I remember when the original UK data protection act came in in 1984. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/35/enacted One immediate question was whether it applied to #Usenet, which was the original federated social media. The general feeling was yes it probably did, but it was impossible for a Usenet node to comply. So everyone ignored the problem, and no legal issues ever arose.
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@jaz@toot.wales 2026-05-01 20:57
@fediversereport the most important part of this (for me): "Court rulings do not apply themselves. Regulators have to interpret them, national courts have to put them into specific cases, and new questions inevitably get referred back to the CJEU for clarification. Each of those points is somewhere the ruling can be made narrower than it currently reads." Literal, broad interpretations of this Dec 2025 ruling are scary, no question. I'll quote from Bird & Bird: "