Re:All the red flags in the Threads privacy policy
by jonny_eh on Thursday July 06, 2023 @11:54PM
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That doesn’t sound right. It surely can’t be any worse than Instagram which works fine in the EU. I believe it hasn’t launched there yet because the lawyers haven’t cleared it.
Re:All the red flags in the Threads privacy policy
by laserbeam on Friday July 07, 2023 @12:31AM
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The main difference is Threads is a new product. Unlike Instagram which was released before GDPR was a thing. Sadly, it's way simpler for business to juat avoid the stringent regulated market at launch if you don't want to comply with regulations, then to actually comply.
I don't think the severity of tracking is important when comparing insta vs threads, just the inertia of an old vs new product.
Threads is currently not available in Europe because its privacy policy isn't compliant with EU law, that's literally what the article is about. We're not talking about individual choice here, or absolutists behind Tor. I don't understand what your post has to do with the topic. Clearly we have with privacy legislation at least accomplished that Meta must follow the rules or not operate here.
You're right that individual users agreeing with TOS's is meaningless, but we've been beyond that for years.