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Re:U.S. senators want social media users to be able to take ... by ysavir on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @10:39AM (#21335060)
My thoughts exactly. If this becomes reality as described in the article, the only change we'll see is countless new social networks popping up, creating shadow profiles based off of the exported data, and spamming phones and/or emails with "Someone you know joined our network and imported your post 'XYZ'! Click here to join them and see their comments on your post".
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Re:U.S. senators want social media users to be able to take ... by ethbro on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @10:49AM (#21335176)
I don't have the technical specifics in working memory, but would the privacy-preserving Apple geolocation system work here?

E.g. You could export edges of the graph as well, but in encrypted form. Only when the owner joins and supplies the decryption key do they become usable and valid

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