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

Balios, 10 months ago

It's not spying if you tell everyone what you are doing

Tips head

OverfedRaccoon, 10 months ago

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, 10 months ago

Almost certainly not

Rabbithole, 10 months ago

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, 10 months ago

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?

burndown, 10 months ago

This is some LinkedIn level dumbassery lol

_haha_oh_wow_, 10 months ago

Meta wants to metastasize.

ekjju, 10 months ago

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

InFerNo, 10 months ago

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

seal_of_approval, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

At this rate, Zuck’s upcoming metaverse haptic suit will ask to view our internal organs

Edit: Kind of like this

Srootus, 10 months ago

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, 10 months ago

Because hating on Threads is cool right now. The spotlight should be on Meta as a whole.

JustSomeGuy, 10 months ago

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, 10 months ago

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

Heresy_generator, 10 months ago

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, 10 months ago

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

Fillet, 10 months ago

whatnoway

LollerCorleone, 10 months ago

What else did you expect from Meta?

Rabbithole, 10 months ago

Oh, I expected absolutely nothing else.

eggest, 10 months ago

I expected them to want a bit more data than this tbh

MortyMcFry, 10 months ago

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, 10 months ago

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, 10 months ago

No that is just smart.

godless, 10 months ago

I've reported it as spyware on google play. Let's see if they ever get around to answering :-P

Stormy404, 10 months ago

ah yes, reporting spyware to the company famous for having spyware on literally everything they make

godless, 10 months ago

True, but google might have enough spite to stick it to meta, who knows.

mightysashiman, 10 months ago

I had not heard of that new shit. Randomnly went to theverge, and and saw they are forcefeeding this new Threads to everyone as the “top articles”. Almost 100K posts already, 35millions accounts activated. People just don’t learn.

BraveSirZaphod, 10 months ago

I wouldn't say it's force-feeding for a news site to report on the highly successful launch of a new social network by one of the largest tech companies in the world that's also directly aiming to compete with a platform owned by a very controversial and frankly entertaining megalomaniac.

If anything, I'd say they're a poor news organization if they didn't cover it.

Contortion, 10 months ago

Collecting so much info there aren't enough categories to cover it all

Rhoeri, 10 months ago

And all of it 100% unnecessary. Which is painful to think about the 30M people that signed up without caring about this.

Rabbithole, 10 months ago

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, 10 months ago

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, 10 months ago

Seriously... I don't understand how people can look at that list and be like. This seems fine.