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DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s just not worth going there unless I use the app and that’s only for when it’s got one person.

  You look at the privacy policy or app permissions for the McDonalds app? The thing is datamining your life.

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  • spader312@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Also waive your rights to class action law suit against McDonald’s

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  • jimbo@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Have you looked at the privacy policy and permissions? They’re pretty tame and about what you’d expect for any app that handles purchases: play.google.com/store/apps/datasafety?id=com.mcdo…

    Personal info - Name, Email address, User IDs, and Address

    Financial info - User payment info and Purchase history

    Messages - Emails and Other in-app messages

    App activity - >App interactions, In-app search history, and Other actions

    App info and performance - Crash logs, Diagnostics, and Other app performance data

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    • SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Look at permissions.

      • retrieve running apps (why does it need to know what else is running on my phone?)
      • View WiFi connections (allows accurate geolocation by retrieving available WiFi networks and comparing them against a database server side)
      • connect and disconnect from WiFi (why ever would this be needed to order food? might be part of the above geolocation system)
      • full network access (can access local area network, not necessary to just make HTTP(s) requests to a server
      • Read Google service configuration (hard to find info on this one but appears to grant access to some account IDs and perhaps the Google login ID)
      • Use accounts on the device (probably to see what accounts are available- more tracking

      Now look at the data safety thing:

      • Financial info may be shared with other companies for advertising or marketing
      • App activity may be shared with other companies for advertising or marketing
      • Device or other IDs may be shared with other companies for advertising or marketing

      Personally though I think you could argue the ‘data safety’ screen is fraudulent- it mentions nothing about collecting location information, so why does the app need location info? Even if they are just collecting which mcdonalds you are near, that’s collecting location info.

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      Then you have the issue of the terms of service. As others have mentioned, if you agree to those terms, you waive your right to participate in any class action lawsuit against McDonalds. And even if you ignore this data collection issue, that right there should be a big reason to say HELL NO to this.

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  • KevonLooney@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    True, but on Android you can turn permissions off.

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