in light of the news that the creators of Maven, a new Sam Altman backed social network, thought it was a good idea to ‘ingest’ 1 million posts scraped of mastodon.social without consent, I thought I’d repost something I wrote on GDPR and the Bluesky bridge in February, as much of the discussion about the legal issues directly applies.
https://write.as/ulrikehahn/bridging-to-bluesky-the-open-social-web-consent-and-gdpr
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2024-06-13 06:26:05
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