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Mastodon doesn’t actively poll the operating system for data about you. You can input data (via posts) and that may be scanned by some system but you actively c
by tsuujin 3y ago
Mastodon doesn’t actively poll the operating system for data about you. You can input data (via posts) and that may be scanned by some system but you actively control all data that you choose to or not to share.
Threads polls just about every bit of data the operating system stores. E.g., on iOS threads reports that they collect data from the health app (“health and fitness”). If you are using the health app to store information about your health and body, Threads wants to get it straight from that app.
It’s not that it’s collecting data, it’s that it is asking for permission to passively collect data from other apps in the background (without you explicitly allowing it each time).
- dash2 3y agoThere's a thread above stating that this is not correct. I'm not saying they are right, wish someone would chime in with the authoritative details.
- tsuujin 3y agoFor iOS the authoritative source is apple itself; you can read their post on this topic here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211970 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211970 The actual list of privacy descriptors and what they actually mean can be found here: https://apps.apple.com/story/id1539235847 https://apps.apple.com/story/id1539235847 For example, the description of “Health and fitness” is: > Health and fitness > Health > Health and medical data, including but not limited to information from the Clinical Health Records API, HealthKit API, and Movement Disorder API, or from health-related human subject research or any other health or medical data that you provide. > Fitness > Fitness and exercise data. Which indicates that the app can use HealthKit etc to gather information about your health and medical data and exercise data.