Notices by Andy McGuire 🐕 (asjmcguire@mastodon.scot)

@aral @fosstodon for what it's worth - it's not loading in the UK right now. Not your profile - the entire site. Took ages to do anything and then got something went wrong on our end.

@aral @fosstodon weirdly if I try and load your profile in a browser via fosstodon it redirects me to your profile on ar.al ? I don't think that used to happen?

@aral @mho as a result - the only fediverse data that Meta can legally harvest without breaching the GDPR - is data that they KNOW comes from their own users.

They can display the data from users elsewhere on the fediverse, but they cannot harvest it.

If they do, the EU is going to hit them with hefty fines.

@aral @mho right - but - the largest argument I see from people is about data harvesting.

They cannot legally do that. GDPR requires people to explicitly agree to meta processing their data. GDPR does not allow for implicit agreement.

There is no technical way for meta to know whether any user is in the EU or not, that's simply not part of the data they get from ActivityPub, and they can't infer that from the location of an instance either - because anyone can sign up anywhere.