A small tool to view real-world ActivityPub objects as JSON! Enter a URL
or username from Mastodon or a similar service below, and we'll send a
request with
the right
Accept
header
to the server to view the underlying object.
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"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
{
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"conversation": "ostatus:conversation",
"sensitive": "as:sensitive",
"toot": "http://joinmastodon.org/ns#",
"votersCount": "toot:votersCount",
"litepub": "http://litepub.social/ns#",
"directMessage": "litepub:directMessage"
}
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"published": "2024-10-23T12:13:14Z",
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],
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"content": "<p>From the story: </p><p>"Georgetown Law's Justin Sherman said the data broker and mobile ad industries claim there are protections in place to anonymize mobile location data and restrict access to it, and that there are limits to the kinds of invasive inferences one can make from location data. The data broker industry also likes to tout the usefulness of mobile location data in fighting retail fraud, he said.</p><p>"All kinds of things can be inferred from this data, including people being targeted by abusers, or people with a particular health condition or religious belief," Sherman said. "You can track jurors, law enforcement officers visiting the homes of suspects, or military intelligence people meeting with their contacts. The notion that the sale of all this data is preventing harm and fraud is hilarious in light of all the harm it causes enabling people to better target their cyber operations, or learning about people's extramarital affairs and extorting public officials."</p>",
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"en": "<p>From the story: </p><p>"Georgetown Law's Justin Sherman said the data broker and mobile ad industries claim there are protections in place to anonymize mobile location data and restrict access to it, and that there are limits to the kinds of invasive inferences one can make from location data. The data broker industry also likes to tout the usefulness of mobile location data in fighting retail fraud, he said.</p><p>"All kinds of things can be inferred from this data, including people being targeted by abusers, or people with a particular health condition or religious belief," Sherman said. "You can track jurors, law enforcement officers visiting the homes of suspects, or military intelligence people meeting with their contacts. The notion that the sale of all this data is preventing harm and fraud is hilarious in light of all the harm it causes enabling people to better target their cyber operations, or learning about people's extramarital affairs and extorting public officials."</p>"
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