Pierre BourdonJul 4, 2023

I've seen 2 or 3 posts in my TL re: App Store privacy info for Threads vs. Mastodon. https://mastodon.social/@jsq/110653072170221591 for example.

I feel like people greatly misunderstand the App Store privacy labels. They're not at all a ground truth you should read without careful interpretation.

- Entirely self reported
- No consistent auditing or data quality enforcement by Apple
- Very vague, both on the scope of categories and what's "collection"
- "May be collected" is a "worst case" statement.

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Show threadIncognito ergo sum ⚔️Jul 4, 2023
@delroth health info.... Just why?
Show threadPierre BourdonJul 4, 2023
@brennschluss I don't know, but my best guess is that it's because the type of user content posted and shared by users is unbounded and might contain that kind of data (example: a post that mentions health issues, or fitness / exercise). Apple's policies don't state that things that qualify as "user content" don't also qualify for the other categories of data collection.
Show threadPierre Bourdon
@brennschluss personally I'm not sure if I agree with that interpretation - and it's a guess about the reason anyway, I'm not the privacy reviewer / lawyer that had to make the decisions for Meta. But I think it's plausible.
Jul 4, 2023 at 6:14amWeb