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Threads collects so much sensitive information it’s a ‘hacker’s dream,’ experts say (archive.today)

submitted 1 year ago by Mereo@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world

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The specificity and quantity of information the text and multimedia platform can access poses a risk to most users, if it falls into the wrong hands or is used to target them, tech experts agree.

“This is a hacker’s dream,” said Claudette McGowan, a longtime banking executive who founded Protexxa, a Toronto-based platform that uses artificial intelligence to rapidly identify and resolve cyber issues for employees.

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[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What does that have to do with the security of our data? I already said I didn't want them here and would all for defederating. I'm specifically talking about defederating to stop them from collecting our data.

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

They get much more data if you interact with them constantly than one profile of you from some point in the past that likely changed. And they want your participation to sell you shit, and control political discourse. They use your data for those purposes, and your participation is your data.