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In my opinion, all the people complaining about privacy policies are barking up the wrong tree. As the saying goes in business, if you have to read the contract, you're already screwed. The reality is that the privacy policy will almost never be a determining factor in whether somebody will use a service. The Facebook haters on HN were never gonna use a Facebook product anyways, regardless of what the policy said, an…
Man I hate these alarmist hit pieces. - "You cant delete Threads without deleting Instagram altogether": but you can deactivate it. What's the difference, and why do I care? Without including that info, you're useless. - "Threads collects sensitive personal information about you": How? Inferred from the things I post? Well I'll just not post those things. - "Threads collects data about your employment": Same. - "Thre…
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Which social media app has access to your phone's storage of health data? Certainly not the one that's the subject of this post. Strava, a social media app for exercise, has selective access to "health" data about exercise stored on the phone, but that's the closest I can think of.
The App Store page for Threads lists “Health & Fitness” under the Analytics and App Functionality sections of App Privacy. I am completely unfamiliar with what that implies or what access would actually be allowed, but I can see how that would raise concern.
An altruistic guess -- maybe another way for them to achieve geolocation if other methods are hindered?
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Which social media app has access to your phone's storage of health data? Certainly not the one that's the subject of this post. Strava, a social media app for exercise, has selective access to "health" data about exercise stored on the phone, but that's the closest I can think of.
The App Store page for Threads lists “Health & Fitness” under the Analytics and App Functionality sections of App Privacy. I am completely unfamiliar with what that implies or what access would actually be allowed, but I can see how that would raise concern.
I don't even see an option to give it access to health information, which is tightly controlled on iOS.
In my opinion, all the people complaining about privacy policies are barking up the wrong tree. As the saying goes in business, if you have to read the contract, you're already screwed. The reality is that the privacy policy will almost never be a determining factor in whether somebody will use a service. The Facebook haters on HN were never gonna use a Facebook product anyways, regardless of what the policy said, an…
If your problem is with the ownership of Twitter, I don’t understand why you would run from the arms of one wannabe cage-fighter into another’s. If your problem is with ethics, FB isn’t a beacon of good behavior. If your problem is getting rate-limited or losing your blue checkmark, I guess go wild, but you probably already loved Twitter too much to leave.
I think we spend too much time and mental energy questioning other people's reasons for how they spend their free time.
In my opinion, all the people complaining about privacy policies are barking up the wrong tree. As the saying goes in business, if you have to read the contract, you're already screwed. The reality is that the privacy policy will almost never be a determining factor in whether somebody will use a service. The Facebook haters on HN were never gonna use a Facebook product anyways, regardless of what the policy said, an…
Why should a social media app have access to the health data stored inside your phone? Why should we not be demanding laws to make this illegal?
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The App Store page for Threads lists “Health & Fitness” under the Analytics and App Functionality sections of App Privacy. I am completely unfamiliar with what that implies or what access would actually be allowed, but I can see how that would raise concern.
Stating that this somehow means it has access to your health information is just straight up misinformation. I don't even see an option to give it access to health information, which is tightly controlled on iOS.
An incorrect interpretation, sure, but not one you have to be dumb to make.
In my opinion, all the people complaining about privacy policies are barking up the wrong tree. As the saying goes in business, if you have to read the contract, you're already screwed. The reality is that the privacy policy will almost never be a determining factor in whether somebody will use a service. The Facebook haters on HN were never gonna use a Facebook product anyways, regardless of what the policy said, an…
> a determining factor in whether somebody will use a service Threads is currently not available in Europe because its privacy policy isn't compliant with EU law, that's literally what the article is about. We're not talking about individual choice here, or absolutists behind Tor. I don't understand what your post has to do with the topic. Clearly we have with privacy legislation at least accomplished that Meta must…