How does an app like Threads get access to financial, political, health, religious or browsing info through your phone's OS. What is the actual source of that data? - eviltoast

I’m trying to understand how an app would even get that info in the first place, how that’s classified and why a mobile operating system even has a way to provide that data.

Am I correct in assuming that if an app is used without play store / play store framework that it would not be able to get access to that data?

Thanks!

  • thisbenzingring@wirebase.org
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    1 year ago

    I think your asking the right question but it’s hard to articulate because you don’t understand the right question to ask.

    Say you use google email and google apps to schedule appointments. The information is put into a database and all sorts of data points are collected. The information can be made into a profile and then sold.

    If you use an app to record your diet. That could start to show medical information if you’re able to put it with the google information and so on.

    This is by no means how it’s done but something to help you understand what you should be asking.