WanderJul 8, 2023

How does an app like Threads get access to financial, political, health, religious or browsing info through your phone's OS. What is the actual source of that data?

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How does an app like Threads get access to financial, political, health, religious or browsing info through your phone's OS. What is the actual source of that data? - Yiffit.net

I’m trying to understand how an app would even get that info in the first place, how that’s classified and why a mobile operating system even has a way to provide that data. Am I correct in assuming that if an app is used without play store / play store framework that it would not be able to get access to that data? Thanks!

Show threadVelkas

People are so worried about this information and I’m over here like, yeah… if I could have something I want today, ordered for me yesterday without me having to even do it… that’d be great.

Like, oh, I need a size 10 6.0mm tunisian crochet hook that imma use to make an afghan tomorrow for my niece. I want to have that size 10 6mm tunisian crochet hook at the ready. Ain’t nobody got time to mess around. 😂

Jul 8, 2023 at 2:13amWeb
Show threadEm AdespotonJul 8, 2023

That’s the attitude that gets people hooked in the first place.

Now see if you can extend that further and see how a company having intimate knowledge of your behaviour could be a problem.

Think about manipulation. Is there a reason you want to buy that crochet hook? Does it have to do with Meta knowing you just had a grandchild and were browsing on Pinterest, and already have a size 8 and 12 hook but no 10, so then they stuck a child oriented project in your feed that just happens to use the hook you don’t have?