AAKL @AAKL@infosec.exchange
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This is actually a concern. Mastodon should have some way of protecting itself against Meta crawlers and tracking code, assuming Meta hasn't already done all of that.

The Verge: Threads is adding fediverse content to your social feeds theverge.com/news/688267/threa @vergeThe Verge @davidpierce

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Threads is adding fediverse content to your social feeds

It’s not full ActivityPub integration, but it’s… closer.

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Don Marti @dmarti@federate.social
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@AAKL @vergeThe Verge @davidpierce Good point. The protocol could be extended to enable passing user opt-outs for purposes like LLM training and surveillance advertising. socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/

(This won't protect against an adversary that ignores opt-outs, but some kinds of opt-out are legally enforceable in some of the jurisdictions where Meta operates)

FEP-5e53: Opt-out Preference Signals

Hello, this is a discussion thread for FEP-5e53: Opt-out Preference Signals Some of the common concerns that I have seen among Fediverse users are about the ability to opt out of certain uses of their content and/or personal information. For example, some users do not want the content they created to be used for training generative AI systems, and some users do not want to have their personal information shared or sold. There is existing relevant work for cases where the user visits an informa...

socialhub.activitypub.rocks · SocialHub

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