No Instagram Threads app in the EU: Irish DPC says Meta's new Twitter rival won't be launched here
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Meta will not launch its new Twitter rival, Threads, in Ireland or the EU for the foreseeable future.

Irish DPC says Meta’s new Twitter rival won’t be launched here – But that’s just because it hasn’t been approved for GDPR. It’ll come here of course, just not now.

  •  pezhore   ( @pezhore@lemmy.ml ) English
    27•10 months ago

    What possible reason could a microbloging app need to know my health information? Ignoring everything else about threads - that alone should cause people to pause before using it.

    Maybe if they notified users like, “We’ve detected that your heart rate is elevated and you’re sweating excessively. Maybe don’t engage with @xerses5434 on this political topic, lest you have a heart attack.”

  •  AndrewZabar   ( @AndrewZabar@beehaw.org ) English
    9•10 months ago

    It’s amazing to have a contrast available to give perspective to just how much Americans have no problem being exploited and the level to which they are. It’s only by looking at the EU’s standards and the fact that they actually give a shit and haven’t been entirely bought by the rich, that we can see America in the proper light.

    And yet, for whatever reasons, America is totally willing to sell itself out and relinquish every semblance of privacy we have.

    •  Inspectigator   ( @Inspectigator@beehaw.org ) English
      2•10 months ago

      The level of idiocy in my country continually astounds me. I consider myself fortunate to live in one of the seemingly less and less common bubbles of this country that generally speaking actually takes education and critical thinking seriously. It’s hard to watch this race towards ignorance spread like wildfire.

  •  cmeerw   ( @cmeerw@programming.dev ) English
    8•10 months ago

    just because it hasn’t been approved for GDPR

    that’s not what the article actually says, and I don’t think any formal approval is needed anyway (you might get fined if you don’t comply with the GDPR). The article claims:

    lack of clarity contained in the EU’s Digital Markets Act

  •  nromdotcom   ( @nromdotcom@beehaw.org ) English
    3•10 months ago

    I’m curious, I’ve never released a mobile app nor had to write a privacy policy.

    When the privacy controls says it collects health information and sensitive info, is that because I can put that information in posts that I make and by definition of posting it, Meta has access to it? Or does it indicate specific data collection (somehow) or processing of submitted posts to collect that data from prose?

    That is, if I were to post “I am an atheist and have a prescription for a daily control inhaler” does that constitute beehaw processing sensitive information and health information from me? Or does that just fall under general “user content” and the specific categories must come from somewhere specific?

      •  nromdotcom   ( @nromdotcom@beehaw.org ) English
        2•10 months ago

        Yeah that makes sense. I don’t have an insta or facebook account, so I don’t know what-all information you can fill in there. But it makes more sense than “any website or app with a freetext box must say they collect any possible data.”

    •  themisir   ( @themisir@beehaw.org ) English
      1•10 months ago

      It’s about the data collected by the service no matter the use case. It doesn’t even have to be stored, even if you are just temporarily processing the data you have to put it on your privacy policy / app transparency report on respective platforms. However, it’s just a form you fill and submit, unless being deeply investigated, you can put anything there and get through the review process until someone spots something out. Then you may have to pay hefty fines