- cross-posted to:
- tech@kbin.social
- fediverse@kbin.social
- cross-posted to:
- tech@kbin.social
- fediverse@kbin.social
Irish DPC says Meta’s new Twitter rival won’t be launched here – But that’s just because it hasn’t been approved for GDPR. It’ll come here of course, just not now.
I’m curious, I’ve never released a mobile app nor had to write a privacy policy.
When the privacy controls says it collects health information and sensitive info, is that because I can put that information in posts that I make and by definition of posting it, Meta has access to it? Or does it indicate specific data collection (somehow) or processing of submitted posts to collect that data from prose?
That is, if I were to post “I am an atheist and have a prescription for a daily control inhaler” does that constitute beehaw processing sensitive information and health information from me? Or does that just fall under general “user content” and the specific categories must come from somewhere specific?
maybe the personal information on your profile? In Facebook there is this section where you can put a lot of personal information
Yeah that makes sense. I don’t have an insta or facebook account, so I don’t know what-all information you can fill in there. But it makes more sense than “any website or app with a freetext box must say they collect any possible data.”
It’s about the data collected by the service no matter the use case. It doesn’t even have to be stored, even if you are just temporarily processing the data you have to put it on your privacy policy / app transparency report on respective platforms. However, it’s just a form you fill and submit, unless being deeply investigated, you can put anything there and get through the review process until someone spots something out. Then you may have to pay hefty fines