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1. Bauglir (bauglir@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2020 10:52:22 UTC Bauglir

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   @puffinus_puffinus @tastytea People must know that, when they post something publicly in Internet, they are not like walking along the street, but like deliberately stapling a message to a noticeboard or sending a message to a newspaper. Web tracking is like following you along the street; scraping intentionally published messages is like going to every noticeboard in the street and taking note of the publications.
   Don't publish anything you don't want to be public...

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   • Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Sunday, 05-Apr-2020 08:22:46 UTC Strypey

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     @puffinus_puffinus
     > What is public is not necessarily for the public eye

     That's exactly what "public" means, by definition. This comment is clearly #doublethink.

   • Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Sunday, 05-Apr-2020 08:31:10 UTC Strypey

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     • Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

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     > sex workers indexed where they may be operating in a legal grey area..

     If this is the case, then making public posts on the internet that reveal this is self-sabotaging. It's about as sensible as drug dealers offering Illegal substances for sale in public posts. People need to be educated about #SecurityCulture, so they don't compromise themselves like this. "Don't read" policies are a head-in-the-sand solution, because cops will not respect them.

   • Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Sunday, 05-Apr-2020 08:36:30 UTC Strypey

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     > could you stop them legally by adding something where the instance license every toot under something that this would be a violation?

     You mean like ARR copyright? Probably not without making it Illegal to read the posts using anything other than the web UI of the instance it's hosted on. So other instances and third-party apps would be violating that license every time they show users the posts. IANAL though.

     @puffinus_puffinus @tao

   • Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Sunday, 05-Apr-2020 08:40:39 UTC Strypey

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     • pfx birb

     @eldaking
     > Usually it is necessary to get a signed form with free and informed consent

     Once something is published it is, by definition, no longer private. You don't need the informed consent of an author to use their books in a study. The same is true of public-facing web publications, including blogs and microblogs.

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   • Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Sunday, 05-Apr-2020 08:45:06 UTC Strypey

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     @bauglir
     > And unless you have copyrighted you messages, there's nothing to claim for.

     Even if you have, they have to be published for #copyright to apply, and the research these folks are doing would most likely be protected by #FairUse/ #FairDealing.
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   • Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Sunday, 05-Apr-2020 08:53:32 UTC Strypey

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     • pfx birb

     @puffinus_puffinus
     > all of these people are potentially under threat by the creation of a database such as this.

     Even if this was literally true (and I think it's an exaggeration at best), the #5Eyes and all other state and corporate spy agencies are most likely building such databases. The only way to prevent that is
     a) don't have these discussions in public
     b) build tools for private social networking that use #E2EE etc so such databases are literally impossible to aggregate.

     @bauglir