awderon

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[–] awderon 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Signal is mainly used by the people I communicate with. The Founder of Signal is also a known Computer Security expert. The signal protocol itself is also used by WhatsApp, Google Messages and Faccebook Messages.

I just had a look at the telegram privacy policy (https://telegram.org/privacy#8-who-your-personal-data-may-be-shared-with) and compared to signals privacy policy (https://signal.org/legal/) telegrams policy is just not for me.

[–] awderon 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

In the current times Signal is the only viable way on mobile. On PC Matrix is a good alternative for chatrooms with friends.

[–] awderon 15 points 1 year ago

He meant it would be irresponsible because his compensation package would suffer. (https://apnews.com/article/shell-ceo-pay-energy-prices-record-profits-3f9b9bb08d1cd88a11d0ab550ffdc053)

[–] awderon 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Then message the server admins or you create a PR on the lemmy github page with the missing information. The missing legal footnotes is an issue you have to take up with them or the upstream lemmy repo on github.

[–] awderon 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm also no expert, just trying to learn more about the topic as it's kind of interesting to see how other people are interpreting it.

[–] awderon 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Receive users’ consent before you use any cookies except strictly necessary cookies.

Wouldn't the auth cookie fall into the strictly necessary category?

[–] awderon 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

There is only one cookie present when I inspect the Cookies with my browsers dev tools. Which seems to be the auth token for my account.

[–] awderon 3 points 1 year ago

I agree, there is definitely work to be done regarding compliance.

[–] awderon 5 points 1 year ago

But this won’t be shared or processed outside of the instance as far as I can tell.

At least use the whole sentence when quoting to avoid confusion.

Looking through the activityStreams definition it seems only Usernames are shared (https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-core/#actors), which is already personal Data according to another comment (https://lemmy.world/comment/929906)

[–] awderon 6 points 1 year ago (21 children)

Disclaimer: I have no law degree and everything in this post is speculative.

After reading up on GDPR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation) it deals with the transfer of personal data to entities outside the EU or EEA for processing. The definition of personal data would be the main point to see if/how GDPR is applicable to lemmy instances. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_data)

Your IP address and EMail address could be classified as personal data from my point of view. But this won't be shared or processed outside of the instance as far as I can tell. If your username and associated posts are classified as personal data I can't say, but there seems no connection of these to your IP or Mail outside the instance. According to this TechDispatch (https://edps.europa.eu/data-protection/our-work/publications/techdispatch/2022-07-26-techdispatch-12022-federated-social-media-platforms_en) the instances still must adhere to GPDR, but as there is not much or no processing of personal data taking place this should pose no issue.

All of this is based on a bit of research, so please enlighten me if I made any mistakes.

[–] awderon 2 points 1 year ago

OpenAI is currently being sued because they used everything they could fin to train their AI models. We will see how that works out.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/28/tech/openai-chatgpt-microsoft-data-sued/index.html

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