Ars TechnicaHow Threads’ privacy policy compares to Twitter’s (and its rivals’)
Here’s what is collected by Threads, as well as by Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, Spill, and Hive Social.
poldemo#privacy
«#Threads (Android, Apple) potentially collects a wide assortment of personal data that remains connected to you, based on the information available in Apple’s App Store, from your purchase history and physical address to your browsing history and health information. “Sensitive information” is also listed as a type of data collected by the Threads app. Some information this could include is your race, sexual orientation, pregnancy status, and religion as well as your biometric data.»
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«#Threads (Android, Apple) potentially collects a wide assortment of personal data that remains connected to you, based on the information available in Apple’s App Store, from your purchase history and physical address to your browsing history and health information. “Sensitive information” is also listed as a type of data collected by the Threads app. Some information this could include is your race, sexual orientation, pregnancy status, and religion as well as your biometric data.»
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q.e.d. Who would have expected anything better. So, stay with #Mastodon.
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴Also:
Is there something like a #JailBreak for older #Android or ##Apple phones where the #OS can be substituted with a securer #FOSS OS like #Linux?
This way, we would not have to need to buy new smartphones every other year due to forced #obsolescence by producers, or they could be recycled so more poorer people in the #GlobalSouth could finally participate in the #InternetRevolution helping to overcome the #DigitalDevide.
Stefan Monnier