So many people are going to sign up and never look at this once.
No because that would hinder their ability to dump information about everything they’re doing and who they’re with for attention.
Yeah this is truly insane. This will never be on my phone. It also helps that Europe thinks this is bullshit as well and it’s not available here.
It’s like a CVS receipt of privacy invasion.
Why are they collecting financial information??
Id guess adspace for rich people can be sold at a premium.
they want everything… even they got banned in Europe because of this
They weren’t banned, they just preemptively pulled out because they knew they couldn’t pull this shit in europe.
thanks for the correction
Available in the U.K. Brexit was such a bad idea. Smh
Is this what convinced you of that?
YSK Meta is also a threat to the privacy of fediverse users, if there are fediverse instances that remain federated with Meta.
Ross Schulman, senior fellow for decentralization at digital rights nonprofit the Electronic Frontier Foundation, notes that if Threads emerges as a massive player in the fediverse, there could be concerns about what he calls “social graph slurping." Meta will know who all of its users interact with and follow within Threads, and it will also be able to see who its users follow in the broader fediverse. And if Threads builds up anywhere near the reach of other Meta platforms, just this little slice of life would give the company a fairly expansive view of interactions beyond its borders.
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-threads-privacy-decentralization/
What do you expect from an app named after the notoriously grim British movie about a nuclear holocaust.
Haha good one! I was wondering why that name sounded familiar and this is it.
Very good film to see… once and never ever unsee or forget the images, isn’t it?
Would an android user not be able to restrict the vast majority of these pulls?
Yes, I have achieved this by not installing any meta apps.
The true sigma move
Sure, but many apps will refuse to work when not giving in to their demands. If an app does that I uninstall it faster than I installed it though
What a nightmare I wish My family stopped using meta apps
WhatsApp is the real drama.
People should use Signal instead. I don’t care if anybody doesn’t like it, it’s what I use and if you want to talk to me you’ll fuckin’ use it.
Never installing any Facebook garbage apps.
I’ve tried that for a few years now. Sadly you’ll lose a ton of contacts.
You would only lose contact with the people who didn’t care enough to keep in touch. That’s a win-win situation.
It’s not just people who know, knew but also new connections that could’ve gone somewhere given enough time and energy.
Being the first to fight for privacy in my circles has amputated so many of my possibilities.
Legislation needs to pas so I don’t have to tell everyone that I don’t want my damn picture on the internet every time someone pulls a phone out.
I fell for the hype and down loaded to see what it was about. I didn’t read that!! What does the financial info mean? What level of detail do they have access to? Like for credit score is that info on my phone or are they getting access to a credit card app? Stealing info while I’m logged into app?
They can even read which apps you have installed in your phone
Fuck Facebook.
I love that it states that you can request for your data to be deleted with no explicit wording stating that it will be
You can request we delete your data and maybe we will lie and say we did when we didn’t actually and maybe we will just tell you to fuck off in nice corporate language but either way you can rest safely knowing we won’t delete your data and will probably let it be stolen by black market hackers
I could be wrong but doesn’t the Facebook and Instagram app collect this same amount of information as well?
Two wrongs don’t make a right.
Nor does triple-commenting.
Lemmy has a few bugs.
No worries, fellow human on the internet - couldn’t resist making a joke.
Meta apps and shady Flashlight/Calculator apps, the two at 80mph, who wins?
I am so happy that I’ve deleted my facebook account about 5 years ago and never since then used any app from Zuckercamp.
I still have to make a few more accounts with one of my proton mail addresses and I will de-google myself almost completely, with only youtube as an exception.
For now.
How did you get around people you are in contact with flat out refusing to explore alternatives like they owe zuck?
Not OP, but those people are just not my friends any more.
We had one person in our group say she wanted to delete facebook and we were all “Yea, alright then” and just moved that group to discord.
I’ve still got an account but use it way less these days since all the people I really cared about were in that group.
To be fair, I bet most apps probably track the same. But meta (probably for legal reasons) has to tell you about it.
Without asking for the permissions they might not get far though
