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These are the privacy permissions that you grant for Meta's new twitter competitor (yiffit.net)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] desorientado 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

why does need health and fitness? does not make sense but is excessively harvesting data

[–] magnetosphere 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

More information = more accurately targeted advertising

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Insurance companies are thirst for that info.

[–] y2cwr2005 3 points 1 year ago

Their justification will be some hokey crap that they can tell whether your active from your movement, which they can detect using the health/fitness via step counts etc.