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T&Cs from Threads: We use the information we collect for Threads for the purposes described in the Meta Privacy Policy under _ your information?", including: ® to provide, personalise (including ads) and improve Instagram (including Threads) and - if you added your Instagram account to an Accounts Centre with other Meta Products accounts — other Meta Products, * to provide measurement, analytics and other business services, * to promote safety, integrity and security across Meta Products, ® to communicate with you, and ® to research and innovate for social good. Learn more about how your Instagram information is used on Threads. If you are a Third-party User, we use the information that we collect about you to provide the Threads service (including to process and display content on Threads), for insights and analytics, and to promote safety, security and integrity.

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T&Cs from Threads: We use the information we collect for Threads for the purposes described in the Meta Privacy Policy under _ your information?", including: ® to provide, personalise (including ads) and improve Instagram (including Threads) and - if you added your Instagram account to an Accounts Centre with other Meta Products accounts — other Meta Products, * to provide measurement, analytics and other business services, * to promote safety, integrity and security across Meta Products, ® to communicate with you, and ® to research and innovate for social good. Learn more about how your Instagram information is used on Threads. If you are a Third-party User, we use the information that we collect about you to provide the Threads service (including to process and display content on Threads), for insights and analytics, and to promote safety, security and integrity.
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Ian Betteridge (ianbetteridge@writing.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2023 20:27:01 JST Ian Betteridge

There's a post doing the rounds which says that Meta's terms and conditions mean they plan to harvest Mastodon users' personal data to target them with ads. Unfortunately that post is misreading the T&Cs, and cherry-picks from a section which is clearly about Threads users, not "third party service users" (ie. us). Here's the full, unedited section.

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