Is there any laws against it ? Will the admins walk scot free ?

  • IIII@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    It’s not like we’ll not see it coming Once threads.net starts federating with the big instances, it’s all over

    The information that can be gathered and sold is pretty intense, even when your account is on another instance

    • All your posts and comments (this is public information, no cause for alarm)
    • Everything you upvote/downvote
    • Every time you load an image from another instance (link tracking, can probably be correlated with your IP address you signed into facebook with)
    • With enough posts in your feed tracking you, a general picture of your interests and time of day you interact with lemmy will form, which can be sold
    • tal@lemmy.today
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      7 months ago

      Time-of-day tracking by third parties already happened on Reddit, had external sites dedicated to it. Not Reddit selling it, just that that information necessarily gets exposed and can be mined. So that’s not really unique to the Threadiverse. Though being aware of it is probably a good idea.