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Mar 18, 2022 14 tweets 11 min read Read on X
This is why @Zomato is forcing people to theit app.

Your personal data that they grab from your phone is far more valuable to them than the money they charge you(delivery fees/subscriptions) for using their services and the huge cut from the restaurants. #SurveillanceCapitalism
@zomato The @zomato share price is down nearly 50% from their all time high and they need to increase their earnings to prevent it from going even lower and that's not going to happen from just selling food, so it's time to monetise their customers' personal data.
@zomato From @Zomato's privacy policy...

zomato.com/policies/priva…
"Unlike cookies, mobile device IDs cannot be deleted."

And it's not just Zomato that tracks you, but various advertising companies that Zomato enables via their app.
If you use the @Zomato app, Zomato will also spy on all the other apps you have installed on your device... "without limitation"...
@zomato . @Zomato is not satisified with just the personal data they are stealing from you...

If you use social login or connect a social media acct with Zomato, they grab your personal data including any info you have made public on the social media sites ***WITHOUT LIMITATION***
@zomato That's not all...

. @Zomato also "obtains" information "about you" from "third parties" aka 'data brokers' and then combine it with all the personal data that they have grabbed "from" you.
@zomato And @Zomato also shares some/all of this information they've have collected about you, including data they've "obtained" from third parties aka 'data brokers' with the restaurants you reserve seats at or make online orders with...
@zomato . @Zomato shares your data with restaurants but doesn't enforce even bare minimum privacy policy requirements on them or share the restaurant's privacy policy with you as part of order flow.

You need to contact each restaurant and figure how they abuse your personal data.

Gold.
@zomato You cannot request @Zomato to delete legitimate personal data grabbed in this manner.

Only inaccurate/incomplete/irrelevant data can be requested to be removed...
@zomato . @Zomato can also decide to not delete all the personal data they've collected one you if they decide that...

"your requests are abusive or unreasonably excessive"

Translation: All your data are belong to us. Nannananana...
@zomato . @Zomato is an Indian company but doesn't give a damn about the data and privacy of Indians.

EU residents get more rights and a say on what @Zomato does with their data than Indians who made Zomato the multi-billion dollar company it is today.

Shame!
@zomato And @Zomato reserves the right to change their privacy policy without giving you an option to reject the changes.

The only way to know of changes to their privacy policy is to regularly check their privacy policy page.

"Please check this page periodically for changes."
@zomato The @zomato privacy policy that applies to your personal data is not the one that you agreed to while signing up or the one that was in place when you shared your data with them...

It is the privacy policy published on their website when @zomato decides to abuse your data.

WTF!

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