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!

  • Velkas@lemmy.world
    44·
    1 year ago

    People are so worried about this information and I’m over here like, yeah… if I could have something I want today, ordered for me yesterday without me having to even do it… that’d be great.

    Like, oh, I need a size 10 6.0mm tunisian crochet hook that imma use to make an afghan tomorrow for my niece. I want to have that size 10 6mm tunisian crochet hook at the ready. Ain’t nobody got time to mess around. 😂

    • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
      4·
      1 year ago

      That’s the attitude that gets people hooked in the first place.

      Now see if you can extend that further and see how a company having intimate knowledge of your behaviour could be a problem.

      Think about manipulation. Is there a reason you want to buy that crochet hook? Does it have to do with Meta knowing you just had a niece and were browsing on Pinterest, and already have a size 8 and 12 hook but no 10, so then they stuck a child oriented project in your feed that just happens to use the hook you don’t have?