Re:All the red flags in the Threads privacy policy
by jjaken on Friday July 07, 2023 @01:43AM
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It’s not from the article. It’s clearly stated on the app store page for Threads: https://imgur.com/a/Lk8Olb6
Re:All the red flags in the Threads privacy policy
by epistasis on Friday July 07, 2023 @01:48AM
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And yet again, this is not data that is coming from your phone's store of health data.
This is data that is linked to you, and the spamminess of the ads on qz.com is likely doing far more invasion of people's privacy than Threads could even dream of.
This comment thread was about Threads taking health data "from your phone," Which is does not do, and which that sceeenshot does not say it does.
This sort of data linking is absolutely pervasive in the web advertising industry, and it is bad. But let's not falsely say it's coming from the store of data on your phone, it's coming from advertising networks like those that pay for qz.com's hosting bills and profits.
Seriously I could barely even find the claim you speak of, when every other sentence is punctuated by a half-screen advertisement.
Why accept the claims of such obvious click-bait without evidence? There's no reason to believe anything said in the article, particularly when it's claims can easily be checked and shown to be false.