Christopher HamiltonI just cannot think of any good reasons for a chat app to request access to your credit score, medical records, fitness data, web browsing history, sexual orientation, text messages, etc.
Yet #Threads does and it is fucking gross
Justknight@39digits is it not possible to just decline those permissions?
@Justknight The majority are marked as optional so it doesn't collect that data by default. Optional should ask the user to opt-in.
So there are some guards in place...but I still can't think why that type of app needs any of those within scope of the permissions to ask.
@39digits I assume it's just to scrape/collect as much data as possible to sell to advertisers. Also fun fact if you have Instagram and you "shake" your phone, an error/problem report system comes up.
So ig they have a reason for health and biometric data? /s
So ig they have a reason for health and biometric data? /s