Meta’s highly anticipated Twitter rival social media app threads finally made available. Many users switched from Instagram to Threads, which attracted great attention. For this reason, many curious questions arose about Threads, which broke the active user record in a short time. one of them “Is Threads safe?” was a question. What information will Meta, which has already had a large account, retain?
Are Threads safe?
Threads potentially collects a wide variety of personal data that remains linked to you based on information available on Apple’s App Store, from your purchase history and physical address to your browsing history and health information. “Sensitive information” A type of data collected by the de Threads application. Some of the information this may contain includes your race, sexual orientation, pregnancy status, and religion.
If you wish, Threads privacy policy You can open and read. The biggest detail that emerged in these documents was that while you can deactivate your Threads account at any time, if you want to delete your Threads account completely, you have to delete your Instagram. But of course, no one wants to read such long lines.
Below is all the data collected by Threads mentioned in the App Store. If you have the Facebook or Instagram app on your phone, remember that this data collected by Meta is comparable to the data these apps collect about you. Android users, on the other hand, are more comfortable with this because they want to know which personal data to share. choose in detail they have the opportunity.
Threads ignored the criticism: It’s wrong!
Threads, which debuted in the past days and flocked to users, took a step back when it came to the fore with a problem about account deletion.
Here is the data Threads collects:
- Purchases (Purchase History)
- Financial Information
- Position (Precise Position, Coarse Position)
- Contact Information (Physical Address, Email Address, Name, Phone Number, Other User Contact Information)
- Persons
- User Content (Photos or Videos, Game Content, Other User Content)
- Search history
- Identifiers (User ID, Device ID)
- Usage Data (Product Interaction, Advertising Data, Other Usage Data)
- Diagnostic (Crash Data, Performance Data, Other Diagnostic Data)
- Health data
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