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Yikes.
Lol fuck that, I’ll stick with mastodon
this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2023
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It's missing something about first born son offering.
So just everything then.
Quite literally. What would "Other Data" even be, your inner thoughts?
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why does need health and fitness? does not make sense but is excessively harvesting data
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Not defending this, but isn't this basically also what Instagram (and every other mainstream social media app) takes? Doesn't make it right obviously but considering 99% of users for this thing are coming from Instagram/Facebook in the first place Meta already knows everything about them anyway.
so basically everything they can get from you?
If you have instagram installed you almost certainly already grant all of this.
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Well, that's a big nope....
On android you can take away all permissions though and it still works fortunately. On my phone i didn't give it one single permission. Or is there some way to gather sensitive data anyway for the app?
I don't think these are permissions, just a list of collected data categories. Google Play's equivalent is the "Data Safety" section and lists the data collected, shared with third parties, and security practices in use. Basically just a more readable privacy policy, but agreeing to that by installing the app does not grant the app with the equivalent permissions automatically.
This is why I ditched Facebook many years ago. The first time they started to change their TOS and privacy stuff I noped out.
Meta knows they can’t fix their terrible privacy record so they might as well milk it.
Is there anything left where they don’t want any permission? Ooof
Sensitive Info, Health Data? õÔ
I assume health data will be what the phone can extrapolate from its sensors, for example, data about your walls and runs from an accelerometer, or screen usage, or sleeping schedules
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Click on “see details” link and scroll endlessly through it all.
People complain about Lemmy's privacy policy, but... I mean... gestures
Anyone know Meta's track record with data?
It's got to be great if they ask for all this /s
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Health and Fitness
Dude I have a step counting app that doesn't even need that shit. It just goes off the gyro. Definitely have no reason to be giving a social media app access to that shit.
No, this is the data they would like to collect from those foolish enough to grant it.
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