"You can trust me because I say you can trust me"

@mxsiege oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck

@mxsiege It looks like their intended use case is trans people tagging cis people, but this is absurd in how poorly considered it's been

@mxsiege This seems extremely shady to me, but how can it be possible to stop someone from making a list of things that are online? I don’t think it is...

@tibius Reporting the app to both google, firefox and github for being used to create datasets thats can be used for hate crime.

Creating a dataset that trans people can use to label people as anti-trans is still shitty. Like I can go on facebook now and for any reason tag anyone i dont like as anti-trans and they'll never know but all their trans friends using the app will judge them.

@mxsiege

*raises hand*

Hi yeah you are making me very anxious pls stop.

@mxsiege Yeah, "rest assured" is a standard emotional manipulation phrase of scammers.

@fluffy @mxsiege Or people looking for targets.

@VyrCossont Have reported it for promotion of hate towards both groups.

@VyrCossont Yeah exactly. There is no proof of who the developer is. Just a couple of empty social media accounts. Their reddit user account only has two posts both for the app, and only comments in those posts.

@mxsiege
Even if they're trying to so a good thing (à la the Green book [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/history-green-book-african-american-travelers-180958506/]) doing it is risky and doing it online and without approval from the trans-friendly flagged resources is frankly dangerous.
@VyrCossont

@VyrCossont I've tracked down their actual personal facebook account and have appraoched them to try and get them to take it down.

@VyrCossont patron saint of not wanting to be on a blacklist

@VyrCossont @mxsiege Jegus.

@Eweish I'm amazed im the first person to be like "err isn't this.. dangerous?"

@mxsiege

Smh

@er1n Does the filter stop a bot from being able to just scrawl through facebook and save accounts of anyone who is tagged green?

@mxsiege it would be possible, but to extract a full list you'd have to feed the URL of every account on facebook into the bloom filter. it might be feasible to brute-force, but my suspicion is that the usage of this extension is so small that it would take forever to find actual positive results

@mxsiege again i'm much more concerned with all the flags being submitted to the extension developer's server

@er1n
Yeah, have reported and contacted the developer to try and get them to realise how dangerous this is.

@tibius The information isnt online, it's being actively created and catalogued by trans people.

@mxsiege So you’re saying that not out trans folk are just effectively being outed by the users of this app.

@tibius @mxsiege yes. that’s exactly what’s happening 😐

@Efi @mxsiege Plus the community registration books in the Netherlands during WWII contained the person's religion so it was easy pickings when some rather intolerant German types invaded and took over the country.

@partridge Only those with the most meow meow beanz will be allowed to decide who is a good and bad. If you dont have enough points of trust, you cannot untag yourself from the system.

@celesteh 💯

@mxsiege https://github.com/shinigami-eyes/shinigami-eyes/issues/3

@celesteh Fantastic thank you!

@SoniEx2

Your ideological opposition to the GDPR is so far off topic that I'm assuming you're trying to derail the conversation.

@SoniEx2 if this were limited to groups and public figures, I would agree. But as this seems to also be making a list of private-citizen trans people, it does seem to be collecting data about individuals and centrally collating that data. If somebody wants to put me in a dataset, I have rights and these are more than just 'opt out'.

I'm not an expert by any means, but I have had GDPR training. This is the sort of thing I was told not to do.