Terrible article. They linked to another product named Threads’ privacy policy.
What were they reading off of?
In the App Store they set the privacy policy to Instagram's;
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/threads-an-instagram-app/id644...
Red flags in the Threads privacy policy
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Re: Red flags in the Threads privacy policy
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you say specifically what goes too far? I don't find it onerous or unreasonable at all, but my business model doesn't improve by violating it either.
Right to be forgotten has some really nasty edge csaes.
If your app doesn't easily support redaction of personal data, you have a design flaw to fix.
Re: Red flags in the Threads privacy policy
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
Imo it's about using instagram data for threads(following same people). Gdpr is not the case since gdpr is also in uk and threads work there
The UK is working on a separate data protection law and the attitude towards privacy is very different from the EU (hence the rewrite)
They're essentially the same, the ICO just doesn't enforce it.
Re: Red flags in the Threads privacy policy
#64If 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.
My problems don't really matter here, where most of my community moves does. And lots of them seem to think the fediverse is to complicated, some that sign up just put the local part of their username into places.
Re: Red flags in the Threads privacy policy
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apple should really communicate more clearly what they mean in these privacy reports, because I don’t think it’s insane to interpret “The following data may be collected and linked to you: … Health & Fitness” in this way. An incorrect interpretation, sure, but not one you have to be dumb to make.
Why is Apple at fault for what an ad-ridden article claims without evidence? Seriously I could barely even find the claim you speak of, when every other sentence is punctuated by a half-screen advertisement. Why accept the claims of such obvious click-bait without evidence? There's no reason to believe anything said in the article, particularly when it's claims can easily be checked and shown to be false.
It’s not from the article. It’s clearly stated on the app store page for Threads: https://imgur.com/a/Lk8Olb6
Re: Red flags in the Threads privacy policy
#66Tbh if you are concerned about the privacy and ethics concerns here the biggest red flag is in the subtitle: Meta's Twitter rival launched in over 100 countries today—but not in the EU Anything more is simply detail - if a major launch of this sort of service omits the EU we immediately know exactly why.
Not sure I buy this. Some of the EU stuff is good, I think a lot of it goes to far and it's a terrible nightmare to navigate now, never mind in a decade when we're all using software that doesn't exist yet.
Scale is the enemy of nuance. This is true for both sides but choosing between US company data brokers free for all and EU, well
Re: Red flags in the Threads privacy policy
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
Imo it's about using instagram data for threads(following same people). Gdpr is not the case since gdpr is also in uk and threads work there
The UK is working on a separate data protection law and the attitude towards privacy is very different from the EU (hence the rewrite)
> The UK is working on a separate data protection law and the attitude towards privacy is very different from the EU (hence the rewrite)
This is very speculative. My guess is that changes will be made, but they'll be incremental and some effort will be made to ensure broad alignment with eu GDPR so we don't have another SCC-syle mess (where some major EU to USA data transfers were determined to be illegal.)
Re: Red flags in the Threads privacy policy
#68If 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.
It's not about any of those things, it's about just being a well-run internet service. Facebook is very good at running a big internet service that billions use, Twitter not so much under new management. A well-run internet service tries not to keep causing self-inflicted PR disasters. A well-run service is stable, consistently available, doesn't have a large amount of feature churn, and generally has stable leadersh…
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Re: Red flags in the Threads privacy policy
#69Man 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…
I think you are underestimating Meta's modeling capabilities, and their reach outside the app.
You do not need to explicitly talk about employment info, personal information, or permit health api access on Threads for Meta to infer these things "well enough" for advertising.
Re: Red flags in the Threads privacy policy
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I agree. It’s technically impossible for them to get this data without OS-brokered consent. Apple’s app store privacy card is extremely misleading here, it is based on a self-assessment not what APIs the app accesses. It looks to me like Meta simply checked every box in the self assessment form.