Since the Play store requires one
Since when does a clock need a privacy policy?
Submitted 6 months ago by doopen@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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tonyn@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
wander1236@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
At least Google is adhering to its own policies this time.
PunnyName@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Helps that they got sued to hell and back recently.
WhyFlip@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Google harvests your sleeping patterns to sell more targeted ads.
linearchaos@lemmy.world 6 months ago
More like Google harvests your __________ to sell more targeted ads.
herrwoland@lemmy.world 6 months ago
waking up to see my underscores have been harvested GODDAMNIT GOOGLE!
xavier666@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Google harvests you~~r __________ ~~to sell more targeted ads
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 months ago
Good thing I never sleep.
0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Ever wonder why you’re getting ads for melatonin?
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 6 months ago
Even better, 24hr of un stopped ads.
Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
But I block their ads… are they stupid???
dsilverz@thelemmy.club 6 months ago
[deleted]KLISHDFSDF@lemmy.ml 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months ago
This one is open source and privacy respecting.
JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world 6 months 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 6 months ago
Their privacy policy: www.fossify.org/policy/clock/
ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 6 months ago
yiu do know that, every two seconds, it goes tiktok?
Aceticon@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That’s because it’s not a clock, it’s a private information stealing app disguised as a clock.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months ago
henfredemars@infosec.pub 6 months ago
That policy better be really short.
carrylex@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Short answer: Google Play
Long answer: Google Play and/or people with special requests like lemmy.ml/post/12332630
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months ago
I don’t even, I can’t even…
Good news gamers, it only works if you sleep alone!
funkajunk@lemm.ee 6 months ago
arran4@aussie.zone 6 months ago
It has sleep tracking with snore and cough tracking
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 6 months 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 6 months ago
Since never... Is that the official app? Or some dubious one from the appstore or some manufacturer's bloatware?
doopen@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s the pre-installed one from Google play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.…
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months 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.