• ngwoo@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    It just links to the overall Google privacy policy, in accordance with Play Store rules mandating privacy policy being easily accessible to users.

    The calculator app doesn’t request any permissions which you can check in settings

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      3 months ago

      Alas, no permissions doesn’t fully mean no privacy intrusion/violation. For example, system permissions are not needed to track how many times you calculate 8008135, and upload that statistic together with your IP address to a public website.

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            3 months ago

            But basic internet permission is given to all apps without asking.

            But it really shouldn’t be! And GrapheneOS, at least, always asks the user when installing apps that want network permission. If the user doesn’t plan on using any network-based features of the app, they can simply decline.

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              3 months ago

              Quite so!

              I’ve discovered on Lineage that even denying an app internet permission, the app can apparently know when the device is online. That also shouldn’t be possible, I think.