Yet another tech billionaire thinks he can get microblogging right
bears the words"keep your username" – suggesting Threads may not be entirely interwoven with the image-heavy Instagram experience.
The App Store page offers links to supplemental privacy policy and terms documents that presumably explain how Meta will use data collected on Threads beyond the way it uses data collected on Instagram – but both links are dead at the time of writing.
Financial information is also accessible, as are health and fitness data, messages, photos and videos, and even voice or sound recordings. Also up for grabs are files and documents, calendar events, contacts, the app's behavior, web browsing history, and device IDs. While Android and iOS allow users to restrict some sharing, Threads clearly follows Meta's surveillance capitalism playbook.
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