October 1, 2023 | 6 min read
Less than 24 hours after Meta launched Threads, an estimated 30 million people had signed up. This was a concern among many data privacy advocates, who felt there were immediate risks for users joining the new platform. Given that Meta has been fined more than six times by the European Union for violating data privacy regulations, which included a $1.3 billion fine earlier this year, the concern is reasonable. However, it doesn’t follow that the millions of people who decided to join Threads are unreasonable, as some in the privacy community suggested.