LollerCorleone, What else did you expect from Meta?
Rabbithole, Oh, I expected absolutely nothing else.
eggest, I expected them to want a bit more data than this tbh
Balios, It's not spying if you tell everyone what you are doing
godless, I've reported it as spyware on google play. Let's see if they ever get around to answering :-P
Stormy404, ah yes, reporting spyware to the company famous for having spyware on literally everything they make
godless, True, but google might have enough spite to stick it to meta, who knows.
OverfedRaccoon, 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?
Player2, Almost certainly not
Rabbithole, 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.
brunox, But, both Facebook app and Instagram app are released in the EU afaik, but threads isn’t. That’s odd to me -is it because both apps are previous to those EU laws so they get a pass?
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L-N-Owhere, @be_excellent_to_each_other
@RabbitholeYep. That's why I call Meta/Facebook... MeatHook
ekjju, 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.
Little8Lost, and likely that is the reason why it did not come to EU on start
Srootus, I don’t have an iOS device so I can’t be 100% sure, its all well and good that people are talking about the privacy problems with Threads, but doesn’t Apple’s privacy page say exactly the same things for Instagram? Why is Threads in the limelight for abusing user privacy like its a shock when Meta’s other apps also do exactly the same.
phazed09, Because hating on Threads is cool right now. The spotlight should be on Meta as a whole.
burndown, This is some LinkedIn level dumbassery lol
_haha_oh_wow_, Meta wants to metastasize.
JustSomeGuy, 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.
Chozo, Yeah, that doesn't actually work that way at all.
Heresy_generator, 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.
Rekorse, Are you really so thick to think that your workaround solves the problem?
seal_of_approval, (edited ) At this rate, Zuck’s upcoming metaverse haptic suit will ask to view our internal organs
Edit: Kind of like this
Rhoeri, And all of it 100% unnecessary. Which is painful to think about the 30M people that signed up without caring about this.
Rabbithole, It isn't unnecessary at all, if you're Meta.
Which is the fundamental issue with a system like that.
The priority is in the wrong damn place.
Crakila, It is necessary... for Meta.
Their business depends on the data that is harvested from it's users.The fact that they can't launch in EU because of how much data they are hoovering up, is a tell tale sign as to how the business is operating.
TheThirdStrike, Seriously... I don't understand how people can look at that list and be like. This seems fine.
quixotic120, A Facebook owned app collects as much data as humanly possible? I am shocked at this unforeseen development
Remember this when they try to integrate into the fedeverse. Don’t be one of the people that says “meta will make it popular!” Be one of the people that will recognize that meta will use it as a tool to extract as much information from users as possible, amongst other nefarious things
SCmSTR, Yeah I don't want it to be popular, I want it to be good and sustainable. Everything else comes after.
Practice makes permanent. Do it right, then get faster.
pjhenry1216, I mean, Meta can extract from the fediverse already. Having a federated instance doesn't really change that. It doesn't provide them deeper access than before. Theyre either federating due to EU policies on interoperability or trying to position themselves as the best instance in regards to the fediverse. There's a lot of clamour as to how great the fediverse is for users, now they can say "choose us, we're fediverse." Other instances need to show them the benefit of other instances and point out that they can have all the "benefits of Threads" (really just benefits of fediverse) without all the disadvantages.
foil, Looks a lot like the Facebook to Meta rebranding, trying to position themselves as the “official” metaverse
MortyMcFry, How can they have an “Other data” category? I thought Apple was so focused on your privacy but they can’t even list all the data apps are tracking. The android screenshot listed mush more.
Rabbithole, I know that it's just me being cynical, but in my head, there's no way that the "other" category isn't by far the largest one out of them all.
MortyMcFry, No that is just smart.
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