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Will people here use/try Meta's #threads when available? Would love to know the reasons or if it would be just for fun/curiosity.

The amount of data collected is insane imo.

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[-] Arotrios@kbin.social 82 points 1 year ago

Thanks to @m0bi13 who posted this breakdown for context :

Data collected by #threads:

  • Health & Fitness
    
    
  • Financial info
    
    
  • Contact info
    
    
  • User content
    
    
  • Browsing History
    
    
  • Usage Data
    
    
  • Diagnostics
    
    
  • Purchases
    
    
  • Location
    
    
  • Contacts
    
    
  • Search history
    
    
  • Identifiers
    
    
  • Sensitive Info
    
    
  • Other Data
    
    

Oh fuck no. The very first line is basically a HIPAA violation. It gets worse from there. We require less disclosure from Supreme Court Justices and Presidential nominees.

This is a trainwreck waiting to happen - even if Facebook itself doesn't abuse this level of power, you know that bad actors within the organization will. And once the information is collected, you know that tyrannical governments all over the world will be falling over themselves to get access to the data. This is a stalker's wetdream, an Orwellian orgasm of truly grotesque proportions.

Keep the Fediverse from Zucking. Just say no to Threads.

[-] bathrobe@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

@Arotrios

@m0bi13 @edu4rdshl

Ok and how is this worse than what Facebook already does? Or TikTok? Or Instagram?

You list all these things as if this new platform is going to be the first and only thing to harvest all your personal data. Like it’s shocking and new and so much worse

How is it worse? It’s the same bullshit. If you already have Facebook, and most do unfortunately, they are already doing that. And I would bet TikTok takes this much and more and has worse actors.

[-] kjr@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

@bathrobe I don't know about tiktok, but I think that it is the same data that Facebook collects. And the worst is what we have at the end, "Other Data". That means, each moment Meta can decide to collect yet more things without to inform the user.

@m0bi13 @edu4rdshl @Arotrios

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