Threads: A Privacy Policy Comparison to Twitter and Rivals

Meta's new social media app, Threads, is launching as an alternative to Twitter amidst growing dissatisfaction with Twitter's user experience. Threads collects a wide range of personal data, including sensitive information such as race, sexual orientation, and biometric data. The app falls under Meta's larger privacy policy, which covers its other social media platforms. Users have the option to deactivate their Threads account, but must delete their Instagram account to fully delete their Threads account. The data collection by Threads is comparable to that of Facebook and Instagram.