- From: Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2023 11:40:41 +0200
- To: Evan Prodromou <evan@prodromou.name>, "public-swicg@w3.org" <public-swicg@w3.org>
Il 28/11/23 17:39, Evan Prodromou ha scritto: > Email filtering has benefited greatly from relatively simple and > low-cost language processing methods such as naive Bayesian spam > filtering <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naive_Bayes_spam_filtering>. > These can balance a shared model (to allow collective protection) and > personal models (to customize for individual needs), with weighting on > each. [...] I agree that's a sensible place where to look for inspiration. Email abuse gives us a pretty good idea of what's going to happen in the fediverse soon as it grows. > I haven't seen a lot of precedent for asking spammers and harassers to > give consent to have their messages used for training public or private > filters, and I don't intend to ever do it for my email inbox or for my > social inbox. This is a good point (this area of application of GDPR is wildly underexplored*) but there are some differences. For example, Mastodon will download a user's bio along with any message received, and the bio may contain all sorts of personal information. Nothing of the sort generally happens with email. It may take some vigilance for developers to keep the analogy valid (for example, dropping some of the received data before the filters and analyses are run). Federico (*) Whoever feels adventurous, try and send some GDPR art. 15 request to some giant provider like https://www.vadesecure.com/en/ ! Maybe we'll get some useful precedents in a couple years. https://noyb.eu/en/exercise-your-rights
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