Comment on Reddit is using AI to determine users beliefs, values, stances and more based on their activity (posts and comments) summarizing it to Subreddit Mods.

ViatorOmnium@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Mubelotix@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sadly you consented to all of it

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  • ViatorOmnium@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    GDPR article 9 (1) says you can't play algorithmic guess with people's religion or political opinions unless you gave express permission to the service provider to do it (i.e. it's not covered in the general GDPR boilerplate)

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    • GreenShimada@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Hard agree with this. Does Reddit even have lawyers, or are they just using ChatGPT? Google, Meta, and Tik Tok already paid PII misuse fines for less than this. everything listed is part of the GDPR extended PII list.

      Unrelated question: How do I short reddit stock?

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  • magikmw@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    GDPR prevents using underhanded tactics to assume consent for this type of use.

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• ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Have there been any enforcement actions against big companies yet?

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  • ViatorOmnium@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Meta got a fine of over a billion euros.
    Google got a bunch of smaller fines, but it's probably way above everyone else in terms of fines.
    Microsoft got half a billion.
    Even Apple got an 8 million euro fine, but that was more a tap in the wrist to make them think twice about some data collection.

    And besides this, large companies are constantly in contact with the authorities and in smaller violations the general policy is to give a warning and let companies stop the illegal data processing voluntarily.

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    • axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      All of them are a slap on a wrist, even Meta

      proton.me/tech-fines-tracker

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    • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m so jealous.

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• basiclemmon98@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Nah, I think all of it is literally just public data offered up by users themselves. If you didn’t want those opinions shared, you shouldn’t have posted them on Reddit.

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  • ViatorOmnium@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    GDPR also applies to data you get from public sources.

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    • GamingChairModel@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t understand.

      If someone writes a reddit post and says “I’m fasting for Ramadan,” can I not infer from that public post that the user is probably Muslim?

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      • ViatorOmnium@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You cannot use an algorithm to corelate it with other data without express consent.

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  • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They will get your data from everywhere not just reddit. There needs to be many more laws and punishments for doing this.

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• Kyrgizion@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I doubt it, since all it ostensibly does is summarize info the user has released freely. How that info is stored and retained exactly might be up for debate though.

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• bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah this seems illegal as fuck

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