8mo ago

What fresh hell is this?

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I can’t even imagine what data there is to collect for an application this simple.
That privacy policy better be really short.
On the bright side, a simple calculator ought to have plenty of free and open source alternatives that don’t harvest any data.
- Your calculator would like access to your contacts.
  Your calculator would like permission to send and receive phone calls.
  Your calculator would like permission to view and delete emails.
  Please click AGREE to proceed.
  
  How else are we supposed to be able to share calculations to your social network????
  
  There is also information that is provided that the phone no longer asks/announces.
- Well, everything else that's not calculations.
  This is why everyone is trying to have their app installed, there's a lot of information that the phone provides, and now you no longer get warned what data is available.
- That privacy policy better be really short.
  Clicking through to the policy from within the app just sends you to the general policy across Google. Very long.
  
  If we collect data and we do vaguely here’s what we might do which might include this other stuff that we might or might not do depending on what data is being collected.
  
  That's basically the language. It's so vague and general/generic and it applies to all products, that it's impossible to know what is being collected without sniffing the traffic (maybe?).
  
  Why even have a privacy policy if it doesn’t specify what exactly is being covered and what’s being done with the data?
  
  It's so, so stupid.
- Same as for any app: crash reports, to fix issues.
  I was curious so I installed it (it's the Google calculator app), and it just links to the generic Google privacy policy. There is nothing specific to the Calculator.
- Whatever they can get their grubby hands on
- Every orher day I enter sets from my workout so my dumbass can remember when I have done 200 squats. My knees hurt.
- I believe it's about how often the app is used. Advertisers label people with "gullible" and stuff like this, so when you use a calculator regularly, that may be a hint that you are not.
  
  Or maybe that you are, if your dumb ass is entering basic-ass calculations. 😅
  
  True. In the end, they are gonna use some statistical methods to find what is more true. Using also all the other data they have about you.

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