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Threads' New Terms and Conditions Affects the Fediverse

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Privacy Guides@lemmy.oneEnglish · 2 years ago

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".

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Why, because they otherwise would get the same data that every other instance already gets?

This is a big nothingsauce. “Meta gets access to public fediverse data when meta joins fediverse” should be the title.

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