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An Open Letter Calling for the Resignation of Eugen Rochko (Gargron) from Mastodon Development (seedy.xyz)
submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 years ago (3 children)

EUnomia

Mastodon App is just the tip of the iceberg of Eugen’s mismanagement. In 2020, he has allegedly taken over €60,000 to partner with the European digital surveillance data collection firm EUnomia. EUnomia’s operations are better summarized by this post by paulfree14 on librenet.de. Eugen is literally selling out Fediverse users to data collection agencies, not exclusively limited to users on Mastodon instances as they scrape public posts. EUnomia has in the past sold this data to large advertising companies, namely Google, as well as law enforcement agencies. This poses a risk to marginalized groups who are targeted by police on a daily basis.

Jesus christ, I'll have to get the hell out of mastodon.social soon

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 years ago (1 children)

It took them 2 sentences to go from "has allegedly taken" to "is literally selling out". It's important to keep in mind that most of what you publish on fediverse is public data and can be scraped by any interested party without paying anyone.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Re: Eugen is literally selling out Fediverse users to data collection agencies on a very quick squiz on the librenet site I saw a lot of busywork but didn't see anything relating to this other than some $ received for maintaining accounts. Oh there was a thing about the subscribe form going to mailchimp. [?]. Somebody feel free to correct me.

It's telling that their first-leading-point is about how a - *GitHub issue that I (Sierra) filed relating to the Mastodon iOS App regarding the lack of ability to see the local timeline *- was handled, rather than the allegedy/literally privacy crime posted above.

This feels on the level of a bunch of ME3 players getting butthurt over the ending, but as I don’t know anything about the parties involved I leave it at that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago

Is it clear if he sold data from federated servers as well?