Post #511969

2023-07-04 21:06 UTC

Not only will #Threads not be launching in the EU (presumably because it&#39;ll be sucking up so much personal data that they can&#39;t make it GDPR compliant), but now the The European Court of Justice has agreed with Germany’s anti-cartel watchdog that Meta can&#39;t share harvested personal data between Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. That ruling will also apply to Threads. A great day for consumer protections. https://www.thelocal.com/20230704/eu-court-deals-blow-to-meta-in-german-data-case/ #Meta

Replies (12)

@Brendanjones@fosstodon.org 2023-07-05 14:25

I'm seeing articles like this one claim the reason for the non-EU launch is the EU's Digital Markets Act, not GDPR, but I'm not sure the source on that. As far as I can tell, Meta haven't stated their reasons, and the Irish Data Protection Commission haven't blocked anything yet (Ireland because that's where Meta's European office is). The DMA is the act stopping Meta combining data from different platforms. Please update me if you see any clarifications on the matter! https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/jul/05/meta-delays-eu-launch-of-twitter-rival-threads-amid-uncertainty-over-personal-data-use

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@jackoneill@mastodon.online 2023-07-04 21:18

@Brendanjones It's not going as far as I would like, but I will accept this. #Meta should be regulated out of business.

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@sebaskr@mstdn.social 2023-07-04 21:50

@Brendanjones Similarly interesting, the Court stressed that data protection and access to personal data are crucial factors for #competition in digital markets (Para 51). Breaches against the #GDPR can be considered by competition authorities when assessing the abuse of a dominant position under EU Law (Para 48). https://curia.europa.eu/juris/documents.jsf?num=C-252/21

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@Quantillion@mstdn.io 2023-07-05 00:45

@Brendanjones They passed a similar rule on WhatsApp when Facebook bought it. FB said OK fine, then a few months later they just ignored it & centralised all User data anyway! Never heard of any penalty but if there was it was most probably simply absorbed into their accounts & forgotten about. Bis repetita.

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@irregularjoe@mastodon.social 2023-07-05 14:05

@Brendanjones Good news. That's what is needed in 'Murica too.

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@dalias@hachyderm.io 2023-07-05 14:10

@Brendanjones It's hilarious they think they're going to just be able to turn on ActivityPub and start pulling in posts (with *no license* no less!) from millions of EU persons when they're so badly out of compliance they can't even offer their own service there.

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@PsyChuan@plush.city 2023-07-05 14:17

@Brendanjones 🥳

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@poppacalypse@alpaca.gold 2023-07-05 15:48

@Brendanjones great news indeed!

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@ArenaCops@infosec.exchange 2023-07-05 16:59

@Brendanjones 😎👍👍👍 Good to have GDPR intercepting the greedy grifting data krakens! #EU #GDPR #MetaThreads #Meta #Threads #DataKrakens #DataHarvesting

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@Icenijay@mas.to 2023-07-05 19:34

@Brendanjones Mack Zuckerberg is no better than Pablo Escobar. He gets people addicted to something that he makes a personal profit from.

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@b3n@g0v.social 2023-07-06 05:13

@Brendanjones Wasn’t the timeline the other way round? The German case was a week ago, so Meta‘s decision not to launch threads is probably following that ruling. When using WhatsApp (then) Facebook agreed to not share data which they then did nonetheless. In view of the cases it makes sense for them to now be more careful. These might well be practical challenges to comply more carefully and show some goodwill. It’s messy, but it’s a technical and legal mess, not morally.

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@kfet@fosstodon.org 2023-07-08 18:40

@Brendanjones I don’t think this is correct, they do plan to launch Threads in EU. Privacy controls do require time/effort to implement.

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