• Creddit@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    It is a requirement of both Android and iOS app stores to have a policy prominently displayed for users.

    • arran 🇦🇺@aussie.zone
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      3 months ago

      This. Although I’m not sure if it’s about in-app display, but it needs to be on the store and on a website somewhere.

      • Creddit@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        It’s Apple Review Guideline 5.1.1:

        (i) Privacy Policies: All apps must include a link to their privacy policy in the App Store Connect metadata field and within the app in an easily accessible manner…

        For Android it’s in their User Data article:

        Privacy Policy All apps must post a privacy policy link in the designated field within Play Console, and a privacy policy link or text within the app itself…

      • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
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        3 months ago

        The default Samsung Calculator doesn’t display a privacy policy (or any menu options really) in-app, but you can find them as a link at the bottom of the ‘See Details’ page under ‘Data Saftey’ on the play store. Annoyingly, it’s just a generic set of terms that covers most of their products/services. That document says they collect and share all sorts of data, but the store page for the calculator say no data collected.

        • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          This is why privacy policies are a virtue signaling joke. They all start with “we respect your privacy” which is so objectively, categorically, false 99% of the time that it should be considered illegal (e.g. false advertising) for the org to even associate those words with their business, in any capacity. Every evilcorp has one policy that is hundreds of pages long and covers everything they ever have done, and ever will do, across every subsidiary and product of the entire umbrella organization. The whole privacy policy system is designed so every consumer rubber stamps them and legally absolves the corporation for everything they will ever do, because it’s impossible for any human to read or understand them. By impossible I mean literally impossible – you would need more than a lifetime to read them, let alone comprehend them…

          If we didn’t live in a capitalist dystopia, privacy policies wouldn’t be needed most of the time, because data laws qould be so comprehensive they explicitly apply for 99% of interactions, and every system would be designed from the ground up for zero trust (e.g. all data is E2EE). But in the 1% of cases where they are needed they’re dynamically generated from templates, based on a users current preferences/settings. The “use X app” policy would be different from the “integrate all of my other various PII linked services to my account” policy. In the case of a completely offline calculator, with no API, and no telemetry/analytics (or them all disabled by default) the policy would not even be a link; just a one-liner that says “App can be used with zero data collection”. If you download the app and choose to enable a data collection setting, that’s when you would be shown the policy related to the specific data points that setting relates to.

          • Nithanim@programming.dev
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            3 months ago

            Personally, I find the wording “We value your privacy” even better. It carries more connection to money.

  • kibiz0r@midwest.socialEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Crash reporting, probably.

    Tap for spoiler

    They gonna rat you out to the feds if you divide by zero.

  • Vanth@reddthat.comEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I work for a company that requires everything to have a privacy policy that meets some minimums. We’re technically not supposed to even use Google websearch because putting any question into it potentially sends company information into the world and out of our control. That one’s not really enforced, thank goodness.

    Without a privacy policy, I guess the calculator app could scrape the numbers you’re entering, plus, idk an email and a OneNote entry for context, to reverse engineer the latest doodad we’ve been designing.

    It’s difficult to imagine what numbers from the calculator alone could be used for, but combine it with other information and you’ve got a problem.

      • Vanth@reddthat.comEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Defensish. Close enough that we overlap some and have a lot of intense rules to follow.

        These people throwing company private information into chatGPT are absolutely wild to me. I’m waiting for someone from an actual defense company to get busted and make headlines for putting like missile defense system specs in, and then it’s part of the dataset used to feed answers to everyone else.

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      3 months ago

      If there are only two digits after a decimal and less than four digits before, you could probably figure out if someone was doing budgeting using their computer. Like if the user imput is:

      99.99 + 27.63 + 127.48 + 4.99 + 2.99 + 10 + 283.57

      …that looks a lot like someone calculating monthly bills and expenses.

  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I can’t believe you use the calculator for 2x2! Do you need help from mathtutors.com? It’s only $5 per month but just for you we’re applying a special rebate which puts your offer at a much lower $12 per month.

    We also noticed that you calculated numbers near 700,000…are you try to buy a house? And also you keep dividing things by 9 and 12. Are you expecting a baby soon?

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Google is so far off the deep end of “cloud” shit and surveillance capitalism that the people running the Play Store can no longer even conceive of software that’s incapable of spying because it doesn’t connect to the Internet to begin with.