Since the Play store requires one
Since when does a clock need a privacy policy?
Submitted 1 year ago by doopen@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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tonyn@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
wander1236@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
At least Google is adhering to its own policies this time.
PunnyName@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Helps that they got sued to hell and back recently.
WhyFlip@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Google harvests your sleeping patterns to sell more targeted ads.
linearchaos@lemmy.world 1 year ago
More like Google harvests your __________ to sell more targeted ads.
herrwoland@lemmy.world 1 year ago
waking up to see my underscores have been harvested GODDAMNIT GOOGLE!
xavier666@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Google harvests you~~r __________ ~~to sell more targeted ads
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 year ago
Good thing I never sleep.
0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Ever wonder why you’re getting ads for melatonin?
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 1 year ago
Even better, 24hr of un stopped ads.
Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
But I block their ads… are they stupid???
dsilverz@thelemmy.club 1 year ago
[deleted]KLISHDFSDF@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
most logical take. people seem to forget that modern apps are tied into all kinds of features that regular users expect to just work. if you want a bare OS with minimalist apps, install lineage or Graphene and only use apps from F-Droid.
fushuan@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The clock also requires location services if you want it automated instead of manually putting the time zone, which most people don’t do, so that’s another thing they mistanage in their privacy policy.
masterofn001@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
This one is open source and privacy respecting.
JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve been annoyed by a minor change in the stock Samsung clock app for some time now. I just installed the Fossify one you linked.
Minor nitpick: 24h time doesn’t start with a leading zero.
Everything else seems exactly how it should be.
Thanks.
howrar@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Their privacy policy: www.fossify.org/policy/clock/
ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 1 year ago
yiu do know that, every two seconds, it goes tiktok?
Aceticon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s because it’s not a clock, it’s a private information stealing app disguised as a clock.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well not necessarily, it could just require information like reading system time settings or location data, and then they have to have a policy explaining what and why to operate in some countries.
Aceticon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If the information never leaves the device then it doesn’t need a policy - privacy is not about what an app does in the device which never leaves the device hence never gets shared, it’s about what it shares with a 3rd party.
A clock doesn’t need to send system time settings information to a server since that serves no purpose for it - managing that is all done at the OS level and the app just uses what’s there - and that’s even more so for location data since things like determining the timezone are done by the user at the OS level, which will handle stuff like prompting the user to update the timezone if, for example, it detects the device is now in a different timezone (for example, after a long trip).
cybervseas@lemmy.world 1 year ago
henfredemars@infosec.pub 1 year ago
That policy better be really short.
carrylex@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Short answer: Google Play
Long answer: Google Play and/or people with special requests like lemmy.ml/post/12332630
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 year ago
everything everwhere is collecting and reselling data on you, me, and the rest of the connected world. even if they give you an ‘opt out’ you are not opted out
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Because it collects your data
Get with the program! You will be tracked and see ads. Now go sit down and be hopeless addicted.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I don’t even, I can’t even…
Good news gamers, it only works if you sleep alone!
arran4@aussie.zone 1 year ago
It has sleep tracking with snore and cough tracking
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 year ago
This one is my favorite clock app. Open source and you can customize it so that shaking or flipping over the phone stops alarm or snooze alarm
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 1 year ago
Since never... Is that the official app? Or some dubious one from the appstore or some manufacturer's bloatware?
doopen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s the pre-installed one from Google play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.…
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 1 year ago
Every time you look at the app, they share the time you’re seeing with every other user, it’s a privacy nightmare!
prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ha! Unlike (some of) you plebs, I live in a very exclusive time zone with less than a billion people in it.
jaybone@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I would guess most timezones have less than a billion people. (Does China still have a single timezone?)
Now I’d be curious to see overall population based on timezone.