Threads' New Terms & Conditions Affects the Fediverse
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Threads, Meta's new microblogging platform, is updating its terms to focus on data collection from "Third Party Users".

Threads new ‘Supplemental Privacy Policy’ (Instagram link) says they’ll collect (from fediverse users interacting with Threads users):

  • Username
  • Profile Picture
  • IP Address
  • Name of Third Party Service
  • Posts from profile
  • Post interactions (Follow, Like, Reshare, Mentions)

From the linked article:

“Granted, these sound like basic table stakes for federation to work well within the Fediverse. Most Mastodon servers collect roughly about the same amount of data for basic features to work correctly. But again, Meta is first and foremost an advertising and data harvesting company…”

  • ryan
    22•1 year ago

    I realize we’re all on the “fuck Meta” train (and yes, fuck 'em), but I will note that my kbin instance is also collecting all of that from y’all just due to how federation works (except for IP address I believe).

      • ryan
        1•1 year ago

        Access logs, sure, but I’m thinking of like federated user logs. Because for example, you’re not accessing the.coolest.zone, you’re on lemmy.world. I wouldn’t have your IP address, and even if you dipped over to the .zone I’d not be able to associate it with your account.

        I assume what they mean by IP address collection is in fact access logs, as opposed to everything else which comes thru standard ActivityPub protocols. And, Meta being Meta, they probably have enough info and tracking pixels on us all to be able to correlate all that data together.