Yikes.
They misspelled their service, should be: threats (to your privacy).
this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2023
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If the general public was just aware of how much privacy they lose by downloading these apps, companies like Meta would never be able to get away with stuff like this.
I doubt it. Most of the time when I point out to someone just how much data they're giving up the response is just "so what if a chinese person knows about me"
Privacy for its own sake has lost value with the younger generations. What we really need to do is educate on the consequences and dangers of the lack of privacy.
New gen here(19). Care about privacy, while most people i know doesn't. It does not depends on gen. It's just most people of any gen, if they get comfortable with service they would not care if it's gonna take every piece of info they have.
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Financial Info, Identifiers, Sensitive Info... Woudn't it be easier just to give them my wallet and passport.
I bet they said something like "we don't use most of that information, we just need access in case we add a new feature in the future that uses it". And then it'll come out that they've always been using it, and it's been associated with your identifying info. And then their server will be hacked (because the admin password was "meta123") and the all the info will leak. The modern internet sucks.
They tried to use the same excuse with their privacy policy for oculus. ie they can even watch the cameras if they want but they promise they won't.....
I run a pair of PiHole instances for DNS on my home network, and I periodically check the logs and look up blocked domains that I don't recognize. Every single time, it's a service that provides telemetry for mobile apps. It's insane how much data apps try to collect.
When Instagram replacement on Fediverse? Fediverse also needs youtube replacement. Lets go all the way and hit these greedy mfers where it hurts. Unfortunetly my dev skills are poor, but I can offer moral support.
Yeah, he's a big fan of access. May as well just make an extra category marked "everything".
jUsT gIvE mETa A cHAnCe iN tHe fEdIVeRsE DuRRrrpH
Meta rolling into the fediverse like the martians in Mars Attacks.
“Don’t run! We’re you’re your friends!”
Wow. I know people are talking a bit about the privacy concerns here on Lemmy, but enterprise social media is something else entirely...
I wouldn't trust Facebook with my Nintendo friend code, let alone all this
Lol fuck that, I’ll stick with mastodon
I think they're using an instance of mastodon
No. They’re using the fediverse, which includes instances of mastodon, but they are making their own client/web portal/whatever you wanna call it. They’re making their own version of the thing that mastodon is, and their versions will be on the same network that mastodon is on.
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What the hell is “sensitive info”
https://developer.apple.com/app-store/app-privacy-details/
"Such as racial or ethnic data, sexual orientation, pregnancy or childbirth information, disability, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, political opinion, genetic information, or biometric data"
The list every totalitarian government used to have to spend hundreds of millions to compile
Don't forget to report it inside Play Store. All of these permissions are not required, thus the app is breaking store rules.
What do you mean its not requierd, but then how will meta sell your data and make billions?/s
i don't know why anyone would want to go from something as bad as twitter to a Facebook owned twitter
Most people really don't care :/
I'm asking myself how people can accept these conditions. There is a huge work of education on privacy to be done.
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