#threads

prplcdclnw@diasp.eu

How Threads’ Privacy Policy Compares to Twitter’s (and Its Rivals’)

Here’s what personal data is collected by Meta’s Threads, as well as by Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, Spill, and Hive Social.

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-twitter-threads-bluesky-spill-hive-mastodon-privacy-comparison/

TL;DR Threads is the worst, and Bluesky and Mastodon are best. (Only Twitter, Hive Social, Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, and Spill are considered.)

#privacy #surveillance #surveillance-capitalism #security #social-network #social-networks #twitter #hive-social #threads #bluesky #mastodon #spill

diane_a@diasp.org

#Meta's new #Threads app needs your health and fitness info. It also needs your browsing history and your location, and your purchases, and...well, it seems to need everything. If you want to get fully creeped out, here's the whole #privacy policy: https://privacycenter.instagram.com/policy

A screenshot of the Threads app privacy screen on an iPhone that shows all of the data the app links to you, including health & fitness, financial info, contact info, purchases, location data, and your browsing history, plus more.

danie10@squeet.me

Threads, Meta’s Twitter rival, is tracking you in all sorts of ways because Meta/Facebook owns it

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Apart from you apparently not being able to delete your Threads profile, it contains similar metadata spying clauses that the other Meta products do about all sorts of metadata that can be tracked and passed upstream to Facebook and Meta (the reason why I deleted my Instagram and Whatsapp accounts years ago).

We’ve seen before though from Facebook, that it does not stop with “using the information to improve our offerings to you”, and that the information also gets passed to 3rd parties (‘partners’) as well. Meta is also based in a country famed for its data collection.

Your metadata is data collected that is not related to the information you consciously put in your profile, posts, and comments. It includes your location throughout the day, your contacts, WiFi and Bluetooth connections, search history, purchases, when you are active, and importantly specific identifiers for your device (so that this behaviour can be matched to data collected by other ‘partners’). This all starts to build up a pretty valuable profile about your behaviour outside of the app.

I also collect visitor data on my website (and did a video about it showing what I can see), but I use a self-hosted open source service, the data does not get sold or given to anyone, and I only aggregate the data to determine what pages are popular, what search terms are finding my site, etc. I’m not profiling people or selling data to 3rd parties.

So, although I love testing out new social networks (and use about 17 at any time) I won’t be touching Threads. But if you’re a Facebook, Instagram or Whatsapp user, this really won’t interest you much as your data is already sucked in.

I know many in the Fediverse won’t like this, but I will consider reconnecting to some Meta users once Threads gets ActivityPub support. The reason is that all the behaviour side information is safely on a non-Meta app. All Meta will see is who I’m contacting on their side, and what I message to them through the open protocol. There is nothing stopping anyone already doing that through the ActivityPub protocol. However if Meta finds some devious way of inserting adverts (or anything else) into that connection, then I’ll once again isolate myself fully from them.

I’ve long been on Mastodon already as my Twitter alternative, and over the last few months especially it has matured well in terms of a richness of information and news, meaningful interaction, and also working through its moderation controls that you can execute yourself.

See https://mashable.com/article/threads-tracking-data
#Blog, #metadata, #privacy, #socialnetworks, #technology, #Threads

spixi@nerdpol.ch

Hallo zusammen,

ich brauche mal einen Rat.

Um mit Freunden in Kontakt zu bleiben, die verschiedene Systeme (darunter #Diaspora, #Mastodon und #Threads) verwenden, habe ich mich bei einem #Hubzilla​-Pod angemeldet. Die Verbindung funktioniert aber nur einseitig, also ich kann meinen Diaspora-User zwar auf Hubzilla finden, aber nicht umgekehrt.

Kann mir jemand mir dabei helfen und schauen, was ich da falsch gemacht habe?

Vielen Dank!
Diaspora
Hubzilla

hackbyte@friendica.utzer.de

Ach seufz, kinners, es geht mir nicht innen kopp. An alle #Mastodonten und #Mastodontinnen, an alle #NeuHier alle #twittermigranten und überhaupt.

Das thema #threads kommt in letzter zeit immer mal wieder auf.

Vorweg, ich halte sie für eine abomination. Wenn eine platform mir nicht genug raum gibt mich auszudrücken, such ich mir ne andere, statt wirre "hacks" zu probieren. Aber mkay, #twitter war halt twitter. ;)

Nun befinden wir uns allerdings im #FediVerse. Hier hats #Mastodon, das vergleichbar enge grenzen setzt.. Aber es hat hier auch #Friendica, #Pleroma und #Hubzilla, die solche grenzen garnicht erst haben (oder bei denen sie weitaus großzügiger gesteckt sind).

Dennoch fragen leute auf #mastodon immer wieder, wie das denn dort funktioniere mit den #threads.. Weil, mensch benötige ja ggf mehr als die von jeweilligen server erlaubte zeichenzahl.

Uhm .. nur ...... WARUM?? ;)

Ich verstehs nicht wirklich. Ihr wollt teilnehmer des #FediVerse werden und seid herzlich willkommen ... aber der schritt zu einem passenderen format ist dann doch zu groß, obwohls im selben #FediVerse stattfindet? *humm*

Das müssen wohl so unvermeidbare wachstumsschmerzen bei solchen emanzipationsperioden sein..... oder irgendsowas ;)

Anyway, bitte fühlt euch nicht angegriffen .. das ist nicht meine intention... Sondern eher eingeladen ...... zu ner diskussionsrunde für und wieder #Mastodon-Threads vs. #FediVerse-Posts ;)

Vielleicht kriegt mich ja noch wer überzeugt am ende... Gelesen hab ich zumindest schon auch ein paar großartige twitter threads.. Denen die dort vorgegebene kadenz wirklich format gab. ;)