A privacy policy can be “we don’t collect your data.”
this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2024
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....is it, though?
Crash reporting, probably.
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They gonna rat you out to the feds if you divide by zero.
Feds/0
Checkmate, atheists
It's got your number.
My recommendation: get rid of that app and go for a zero-tracker one:
... or any other great FOSS calculator out there.
Because it's Google's proprietary garbage app. Use FOSS alternatives from F-Droid instead.
I'd rather have a Foss project with a simple privacy policy that clearly says they store nothing than one that has no policy at all
A privacy policy is only legally required when you actually collect user data. Most devs don't write a privacy policy for no reason, so seeing one can often be suspicious. Btw if you are worried about a FOSS app tracking you without disclosing it in their privacy policy, if this is the case, F-Droid would display it under the Anti-features section.
Its a good practice to have a policy, even if its not legally required
Privacy policies are BS anyway. Better to just not have an app that depends on a server or entity.
Because someone wants to know if you use the calculator to spell boobies (8008135)
I work for a company that requires everything to have a privacy policy that meets some minimums. We're technically not supposed to even use Google websearch because putting any question into it potentially sends company information into the world and out of our control. That one's not really enforced, thank goodness.
Without a privacy policy, I guess the calculator app could scrape the numbers you're entering, plus, idk an email and a OneNote entry for context, to reverse engineer the latest doodad we've been designing.
It's difficult to imagine what numbers from the calculator alone could be used for, but combine it with other information and you've got a problem.
Is day today having a privacy policy implies that the app is in fact being used for data collection. However, it appears to point to the general Google privacy policy...
Use the one that comes with Lineage OS. Alternatively you could use one off of F-droid
Because Google Calculator collects everything, just like any other Google app (except for Pixel Launcher probably).
I just checked mine and it has no permissions. How is it collecting everything?
It collects its own part (logs and probably even the calculation history).
I use opencalc, stick to FOSS software as much as humanly possible.