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!

  • Sterben@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    As long as you use iOS (Apple) or Android (Google) services you will never have any kind of privacy.

    First, using Gmail is not a good idea if you care about your privacy. Google is known to being reading email contents.

    Second, you buy the device, not the OS. so both Apple and Google will try to profit from you using their OS.

    Apple looks like is good for privacy, but I am afraid with iOS closed source there is no way to know. On iOS, app like TikTok can track the sh#t out of you even if you ask not to.

    And Android is focused around Google, so using it means give up on privacy. However, you can install GrapheneOS (Android ROM), which is much more secure and privacy focused.