I don't think most people on the fediverse appreciate how much of things like the GDPR depend on contracts and documentation.
I also don't think most people on the fediverse appreciate how "it's hard to make this meet some bare minimum standards for data privacy" is not an excuse for not doing it.
"Own your data" is the byline that mastodon likes, but it really isn't true, and a lot of for-profit companies do better than the fediverse does in this regard.
@hrefna Do you think that there’s a mechanism to change this ethos that isn’t predicated on financial obligations? GDPR has succeeded in part because it aligned profit incentives with consumer protection practices, but that model doesn’t necessarily map to volunteer-run community projects that often have no assets or legal entity to shield contributors.
@eccentric_econ I don't think punitive systems are necessary nor sufficient, but if we are going to claim that we are a "better" alternative to "corporate owned social media" for your data then we need to actually be better when it comes to data handling.
Companies do it at gunpoint, essentially, we could be doing it because it's the right thing to do.
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