A short YouTube commentary by Caitlin Sarian summarizing the types of personal data the Threads app (by Meta) collects. The video walks through the App Store listing and enumerates collected categories — health and fitness data, financial information, contact information, browsing and search history, identifiers, biometric/sensitive data — and frames Threads as an extension of Meta’s broader data-collection ecosystem.
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So what personal information is Threads collecting on you? For those of you that have been living under a rock, Thread is Meta's Twitter rival and it is tracking you in all sorts of ways. Before we continue, make sure you hit that subscribe button so you can follow along with all the cyber security and data protection content. So if you go to the App Store and you go to the Threads app, you can also see all the data that they collect on you. So let's take a look. They collect health and fitness data, financial information, contact information, browsing history, search history identifiers, sensitive information. We talked. It's like biometric data and other data. So Threads does collect a lot of information, and that's because they're owned by Meta and Meta is Facebook and Instagram and they're collecting data on you all the time. So just realize that Threads is just an extension of Facebook and Meta and they're collecting information like and follow for more cybersecurity tips and be sure to share this with a friend.
