meta’s threads app is a privacy nightmare that won’t launch in eu yet

(TechCrunch) Meta’s planned Twitter killer, Threads, isn’t yet publicly available but it already looks like a privacy nightmare.

Information provided about the app’s privacy via mandatory disclosures required on iOS shows the app may collect highly sensitive information about users in order to profile their digital activity — including health and financial data, precise location, browsing history, contacts, search history and other sensitive information.

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