Gregory's Server
I've seen 2 or 3 posts in my TL re: App Store privacy info for Threads vs. Mastodon. https://mastodon.social/@jsq/110653072170221591 for example.
I feel like people greatly misunderstand the App Store privacy labels. They're not at all a ground truth you should read without careful interpretation.
- Entirely self reported
- No consistent auditing or data quality enforcement by Apple
- Very vague, both on the scope of categories and what's "collection"
- "May be collected" is a "worst case" statement.
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- Only data shared directly with the app developer or contracted parties needs to be reported.
- Some categories that aren't vague are way too broad.
Mastodon reporting an empty list here is in fact very obviously wrong. When you log in to mastodon.social from the Mastodon app, you are sharing contact info (email address), identifiers, as well as usage data.
So at the very least you should conclude Threads is doing a better job of informing its users re: privacy than Mastodon gGmbH is.
- Only data shared directly with the app developer or contracted parties needs to be reported.
- Some categories that aren't vague are way too broad.
Mastodon reporting an empty list here is in fact very obviously wrong. When you log in to mastodon.social from the Mastodon app, you are sharing contact info (email address), identifiers, as well as usage data.