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1. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 00:07:53 CEST Michael Vogel

   • Evan Prodromou
   @evan The moment someone uses your data to get information, you go from being a user to being a product. I don't have problems with things like the number of users on a server, the number of posts on a server and things like that. But I really don't like anything that analyses the social graph (who interacts with whom and so on).
   • Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 00:24:36 CEST Evan Prodromou

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     @heluecht even for academic research?

   • Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 00:24:36 CEST Michael Vogel

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan To use a famous quote: "I have a bad feeling about this".

     Every observation influences the object being observed. Knowing that my interactions may be observed and analysed is likely to make me overthink my actions, because I would automatically try to behave in a way that would influence the outcome.

   • Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 06:34:30 CEST Evan Prodromou

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     @heluecht last question: have you ever participated as a research subject before in another part of your life?

   • Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 06:34:30 CEST Michael Vogel

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan I regularly take part in opinion polls conducted by opinion research institutes or universities. I have never taken part in any university research where my behaviour has been tracked.

     Are you aware of the very strict European data protection laws? (I think they're part of the reason why AP connectivity in Threads is still not available in Europe and why Threads was introduced months later than in the rest of the world).

     The data protection laws were introduced a few years ago and were mostly a copy of the German data protection laws, which have always been very strict. Many Germans are very strict with their own data. Yes, many of us share a lot of (personal) data, but many of us don't usually want others to use our own data.