Post by @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

"Match Group controls roughly two-thirds of the global dating app market, concentrating vast amounts of intimate user information under a single corporate umbrella. CEO and Director of Match Group, Spencer Rascoff, previously served on the board of Palantir. Palantir specialises in data analytics and AI systems, often providing their software to be used to commit atrocities such as the mass deportations of undocumented migrants."

@drwaus, 2026

https://digitalrightswatch.org.au/2026/05/13/too-much-information-dating-apps-and-ai/

#DatingApps #DataFarming

Too Much Information: Dating Apps and AI

#datingapps #datafarming

Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz 1 hour ago

"Most users don’t read terms and conditions, demonstrating the need for a 'fair and reasonable' test that protects us against invasive data sharing."

@drwaus, 2026

https://digitalrightswatch.org.au/2026/05/13/too-much-information-dating-apps-and-ai/

It's unfair to expect citizens to read lengthy and intentionally opaque T&Cs, in full, just to make sure we're not singing away our basic rights. We need entrenched legal protection from predatory data practices.

The satirical T&C statement at the bottom of @pluralistic's web pages makes this point nicely.

Too Much Information: Dating Apps and AI

Chris Mills

@ambientspace@cloudisland.nz 1 hour ago

@strypey @drwaus @pluralistic I would like to think that it is fair to say that nearly all EULA are accepted under duress, and should be considered invalid.

Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz 60 minutes ago

@ambientspace
> nearly all EULA are accepted under duress, and should be considered invalid

I get what you're saying. But when someone creates a new fediverse account, the admin/mod team need a way to create a binding agreement with them, about how their service is (and is not) to be used. This is an EULA.

The problem is not T&Cs per se, but their opaqueness, and the lack of legal protections equivalent to not enforcing a contract where someone 'agrees' to be enslaved.

@drwaus @pluralistic

Chris Mills

@ambientspace@cloudisland.nz 57 minutes ago

@strypey ah, yes. In terms of instances, I found choosing one in NZ to be fairly easy, and I’ve grown quite comfortable with easily existing within those parameters.

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