Threads runs into Twitter’s legal threats, data privacy fears in EU

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Twitter threatens to sue Meta over its new app, the Twitter-like Threads, which launched on Thursday, July 6. Full story:

, said Twitter would need much more detail. “The mere hiring of former Twitter employees and the fact that Facebook created a somewhat similar site is unlikely to support a trade secrets claim,” Lemley said. , University of Richmond law professor Carl Tobias said this could be part of a plan to slow down Meta and its new app. “Sometimes lawyers, they threaten but don’t follow through. Or they see how far they can go….

TechCrunch, which called the app a “privacy nightmare” wrote: “Bringing Meta’s surveillance ads business into compliance with EU law is going to require a sea-change in how it operates – one which does not appear to be its plan with Threads, given it’s presenting more of the same data-grabbing attention farming that’s gained Mark Zuckerberg’s empire such a toxic rep it had to undergo an expensive corporate rebrand to Meta in recent years.

Zino also said how Threads’ launch was timely as Twitter introduced controversial changes: “Meta timed the launch well given a slew of issues at Twitter since Musk’s takeover and appetite for many to have an alternative option.”

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