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eroc1990 , to Fediverse in Full, expanded list of all the data points and their purposes that Meta's Threads collect and link to user accounts. It's even more insane than you might've thought.
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Here’s the Android version.

A screenshot of the data privacy page for the Threads app, as listed in the Google Play Store.

BEEKAYRANDEE ,

Ah yes, it needs my political or religious beliefs for fraud prevention.

janWilejan , to Fediverse in Map of the fediverse, found on Wikipedia
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Looks like they're missing Forejo and vervis, which federate using the ForgeFed protocol.

Steamymoomilk , to Fediverse in Full, expanded list of all the data points and their purposes that Meta's Threads collect and link to user accounts. It's even more insane than you might've thought.
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Who is this brain dead to accept this agreement ACTUALLY THIS IS INSANE

fearout OP ,
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Someone who doesn't read it for starters

0x4E4F ,
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You know… the Next, Next, Next, Finish guys.

Serously though, most people don’t even read them.

VulcanSphere ,
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Most people who don't bother to read app permissions information

FrostBolt , to Fediverse in Full, expanded list of all the data points and their purposes that Meta's Threads collect and link to user accounts. It's even more insane than you might've thought.
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It's almost comically bad

DigitalTraveler42 , to Fediverse in Map of the fediverse, found on Wikipedia

I hate how this infographic doesn’t have details for the logos who’s names aren’t spelled out.

JustSomeGuy , to Fediverse in So, I guess Threads is officially spyware... Not at all shocked, but, Jesus that's a lot of data they're wanting.

Pfffft. What's the drama? So you create a new insta account with no info and then pop it to Threads. They get nothing and you still get to see what's what.

Rekorse ,

Are you really so thick to think that your workaround solves the problem?

Chozo ,

Yeah, that doesn't actually work that way at all.

Heresy_generator ,
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These are app permissions for the Threads app; so the app itself will collected all of the personal information from your phone that it possibly can and send it to Facebook regardless of how you limit the amount of data you choose to share with Instagram. The only way to get around this and still use the app would be to use a clean phone and never use it for anything that may generate or collect personal data.

mizzyc , to Fediverse in Full, expanded list of all the data points and their purposes that Meta's Threads collect and link to user accounts. It's even more insane than you might've thought.
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Question: all these permitions are allowed by default? Or the app asks for it and you can allow them or not from Android/iOS permissions, like notifications?

fearout OP , (edited )
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You can block some things (like location data), but a lot of it is only moderated using an "Ask app not to track" button, which is more lenient.

mizzyc ,
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I didn't know there was a button like that! Where can I find it on Android?

fearout OP , (edited )
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I was talking about iOS, the image in the post is compiled from AppStore screenshots. Here’s a relevant page on Apple's website.

As for Android, I’m not really sure. Probably by installing DuckDuckGo? It runs a local firewall-type thing that blocks known trackers.

0x4E4F ,
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You can find the settings of what a certain app can access in Manage Apps in Settings. The permissions that each app has are listed there. You can revoke some of them, but some apps will just fail to start with all of them revoked.

Grimlo9ic , to Fediverse in Full, expanded list of all the data points and their purposes that Meta's Threads collect and link to user accounts. It's even more insane than you might've thought.
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I was gonna say, it looks like the only thing they don't own when you say yes is your image and likeness, but they've probably already extracted that from your IG account too.

LOL. LMAO, even.

DiffferentReality , to Fediverse in Full, expanded list of all the data points and their purposes that Meta's Threads collect and link to user accounts. It's even more insane than you might've thought.

This looks like pretty much everything possible to collect. Is there anything they left on the table so to speak or is this just a data grab at everything iOS / Android allows to be collected?

fearout OP , to Fediverse in Full, expanded list of all the data points and their purposes that Meta's Threads collect and link to user accounts. It's even more insane than you might've thought.
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A lot of it duplicates across categories, but I left everything in so that you can assess each category for yourself.

0x4E4F ,
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On top of all that Other data 🤣, like what, when my granma had her first period, lol 🤣.

fearout OP ,
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Yeah. Seems like Apple doesn't have enough categories for all the shit they collect.

OverfedRaccoon , to Fediverse in So, I guess Threads is officially spyware... Not at all shocked, but, Jesus that's a lot of data they're wanting.
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Does this differ from what Meta likely already has on you through Facebook and/or Instagram? I’m not saying I disagree or anything, but is there anything here that isn’t already compromised by having spent more than a decade on Facebook or using Instagram?

Rabbithole OP ,

Probably not tbh, but it's another thing to actually see it there in a permissions list.

I'm pretty sure that none of this is really "news" to anyone. I posted it because it's a slightly more "in your face" view of what we already know.

chordata , to Fediverse in Twitter users try to comprehend the Fediverse, they can't.
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All the people who could understand the fediverse probs already jumped ship to mastodon

Itty53 ,
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The "difficulty" in signing up is a feature, I say.

JollyTheRancher , to RedditMigration in I definitely think r/gaming has the biggest banger of a privated notice

Another subreddit posted the date he said it, which I think added to it - He said it on April 19th of this year - https://www.gq.com/story/steve-huffman-reddit-public-tiktok-ban - that aged poorly very very quickly

crossmr ,

I wonder if the author will be contacting him for a follow-up.

reflex ,
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I wonder if the author will be contacting him for a follow-up.

Spez: How dare you record a private conversation showing my hypocrisy?!

Brad_Brace ,
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r/agedlikeavocado

wallmenis ,
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You mean m/agedlikeavocado

Teal , to aww in Too slow, so she booped you.
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She’s such a sweetie! Just look at that happy face. :)

Flaky_Fish69 OP ,
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It’s really amazing how quickly she can go from napping to “ZOMGERD”…. Usually it’s restricted to food dropping or people (that she likes) coming over

ekjju , to Fediverse in So, I guess Threads is officially spyware... Not at all shocked, but, Jesus that's a lot of data they're wanting.

Lol “sensitive info 👁️” Like what are they looking at? 😳Do they really need to link the nudes to my identity?

InFerNo ,

It's a list of sensitive info and then there's "sensitive info" as a separate category. Wild.

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