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Are you going to try Meta's Threads? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Will people here use/try Meta's #threads when available? Would love to know the reasons or if it would be just for fun/curiosity.

The amount of data collected is insane imo.

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[-] [email protected] 82 points 2 years ago

Thanks to @m0bi13 who posted this breakdown for context :

Data collected by #threads:

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Health & Fitness
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Financial info
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Contact info
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User content
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Browsing History
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Usage Data
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Diagnostics
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Purchases
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Location
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Contacts
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Search history
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Identifiers
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Sensitive Info
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Other Data
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Oh fuck no. The very first line is basically a HIPAA violation. It gets worse from there. We require less disclosure from Supreme Court Justices and Presidential nominees.

This is a trainwreck waiting to happen - even if Facebook itself doesn't abuse this level of power, you know that bad actors within the organization will. And once the information is collected, you know that tyrannical governments all over the world will be falling over themselves to get access to the data. This is a stalker's wetdream, an Orwellian orgasm of truly grotesque proportions.

Keep the Fediverse from Zucking. Just say no to Threads.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm all for the outrage, but what did people expect? It's the same amount of information already collected through the Facebook and Instagram apps, it's nothing really new.

ETA: just to be extremely clear, that's a bad thing.

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