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How come ?! This is blatantly illegal in Europe ! I genuinely really don't see how they could get passive consent unless FB and Twitter themselves give them acc
by ldng 13y ago
How come ?! This is blatantly illegal in Europe !
I genuinely really don't see how they could get passive consent unless FB and Twitter themselves give them access. Or they just scrap public profiles ?
- uxwtf 13y agoWhy is it illegal in Europe? Klout analyses your Twitter interactions which are publicly visible.
- ldng 13y agoIn Europe you it's opt-in by default. You have to explicitly consent to the creation of an account as far as I understand it. So, to me, they could scrap content but not go as far as create automatically an account without your consent. Or I misunderstood something and would be glad someone explains it to me.
- talkingquickly 13y agoI don't think they create an account for you, they just compute a score based on your activity on social media accounts you already have. So if you have a twitter account, they can generate a score for the twitter user using publicly available information and then if you sign up to klout, link these existing calculations to the newly created account.
- sp332 13y agoJust public profiles.