How Threads’ privacy policy compares to Twitter’s (and its rivals’)
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Here’s what is collected by Threads, as well as by Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, Spill, and Hive Social.

Yes, this is the reason Meta keeps fighting Apple and Google when the app stores add marginal transparency.

I wonder how many people will even consider the possibility that they need to check those permissions carefully lest the social media app collect health data?

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I think the culture/training of not even reading terms and conditions leads to people not checking what they give away to apps and software.

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