Comment by reactordev
1 year ago
Meta isn’t just crawling your photos. If you gave it permission not just “While using the app” to anything, it’s gathering up metadata about you and sending it home. Contacts, emails, location, imei, photos, video exif, browser history if you happen to open a mini-safari view from an ad, app usage statistics, your IP address, your device information, anything they can gather - they are.
I uninstalled Facebook, Meta, MetaQuest, Instagram and deleted my accounts. I’ll never put one of their apps on my phone again.
Even without permission, they're doing as much as they can technically manage: https://localmess.github.io/
Uninstall is indeed the only option. There is no way in hell this is the last time they do something like this, nor is it the first.
Some of those data brokers have no qualms with breaking cybersecurity laws either.
...and it's unlikely the police or three-letter organizations would cut off one of their main sources of information by enforcing laws against them.
"People just submitted it. I don't know why. They 'trust me'. Dumb fucks."
> Facebook, Meta, MetaQuest, Instagram and deleted my accounts. I’ll never put one of their apps on my phone again.
Hope you also removed WhatsApp, a very popular chat app especially outside the USA.
Yup, anything Meta backed, not on my phone.
I specifically refuse to have any Google or Meta apps on my phone. Yes, my phone is an iPhone made by Apple, but I figure I'll put all my eggs in one violator's basket. At least this violator has a financial incentive not to siphon and sell all my information.
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