Thing is, GDPR also applies in the UK and CCPA applies in California where Threads is active so legally they have to delete your profile regardless of what they say in their FAQ
Curious, if EU based instances allow interoperability with Threads. Would this be a way for Meta to gather data on EU based users without GDPR compliance, even if Threads itself is not available in the EU?
True, unless they may want to structure the data they’d prefer to collect maybe? If they become a primary force in this market could they impose their own “standards”? Where other instance admins would enforce locally, just to conform and grow/monetize?
They won’t. At this point is this still unknown for the majority of people? Maybe I’m jaded but it seems like everyone knows they’re being farmed for data but they don’t care enough because fb/ig/everything these days is too convenient/addicting.
Most people tend to dismiss things tey don’t experience themselves. They don’t really see the impact of data harvesting could have. Its kind of same with climate change.
I'm not surprised considering how much of a shit company Meta is. It feels like they cobbled this together in a few weeks. There's a good reason why it's not launching in the EU yet.
If you want to delete something that is part of your Google account, then yes. Like your Gmail address. But not if you want to delete your account in an entirely different service, that only uses Google for the login. I guess the problem is, that Threads is perceived (and maybe also marketed) as an independent service while it’s apparently just part of your Instagram account.
Might depend on who you talk to. Everyone I spoke to about it was under the same understanding that it’s integrated deeply with your Instagram account.
I spun up my old burner Instagram account to check the platform out. They tell you that you can only change things like your name from Instagram, the app let’s you import all other profile info from Instagram, and when you login for the first time it shows you the thread profiles of everyone you follow on Instagram and gives you a button to add them all.
It’s not just an Auth method, it’s the same account with the ability to change a few things between apps. Plenty of reasons to hate Threads, but this ain’t it.
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