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Threads attracts 30M users in 24 hours despite design flaws, privacy concerns | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Data collected by Threads can include users' sexual orientation, race and ethnicity, biometric data, trade union membership, pregnancy status, politics, and religious beliefs. Threads can also collect data on users' employment, as well as health and fitness. Beyond that, the app also can collect data monitoring users' location and other web activity.

Geez meta, do you want the results of my colonoscopy too? (spoiler: they do)

"Health and financial data, precise location, search history, browsing history, and more are not needed for a user to be on the app and are instead used to create a more hyper-personalized and targeted experience on the app or shared with and sold to advertisers," Schroeder told Ars.

Fuck targeted experiences, all my homies hate targeted experiences

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Sexuality and union membership? FUCK THAT.