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The specificity and quantity of information the text and multimedia platform can access poses a risk to most users, if it falls into the wrong hands or is used to target them, tech experts agree.

“This is a hacker’s dream,” said Claudette McGowan, a longtime banking executive who founded Protexxa, a Toronto-based platform that uses artificial intelligence to rapidly identify and resolve cyber issues for employees.

  • NightOwl@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    1 year ago

    And yet some want to hear meta out before deciding whether to federate or defederate from them.

    • SketchySeaBeast@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 year ago

      All of the data Meta could gather by federating is available to anyone who sets up their own server. The hacker would just need to know how to use docker. What’s scary is the extra information Threads users give away by being on threads.

      • tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@feddit.deEnglish
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        1 year ago

        that extra information is among other things:

        The privacy policy Threads has embedded in Apple’s app store shows it may collect, and link to your identity, data including your health and fitness, financial, browsing history, location and contact information, along with the broad category of “sensitive information.”