milfmarthawayne:

milfmarthawayne:

As someone who will never join Threads, I find there to be something exceptionally insidious about the part of its dogshit privacy practices where it collects users’ contact data.

A lot of people have my phone number, and not all of them take privacy seriously. A few of them are bound to join Threads at some point. This means I never even have to join the platform for it to collect my full name, contact info, current or past address, and reconstruct at least part of my social and/or professional circle. Despite the fact that I have never agreed to any of this, it is completely legal since people with my contact info have consented to Meta collecting their (and therefore my) info. I hate it here 🫠

For those who want to hear about this from somebody a little more trustworthy than ‘tumblr user milfmarthawayne’ (which, props to you, I wouldn’t blindly trust me either) here are a couple of articles that talk about the privacy concerns surrounding Threads (+ similar apps)!

How Threads’ privacy policy compares to Twitter’s (and its rivals’)

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

Ars Technica

Privacy expert issues warning about Threads, Meta's Twitter competitor

Is the Threads app safe? A Drexel University privacy expert says the app has privacy concerns that "we should look into."

cbsnews.com