Since the Play store requires one
At least Google is adhering to its own policies this time.
Helps that they got sued to hell and back recently.
Google harvests your sleeping patterns to sell more targeted ads.
More like Google harvests your __________ to sell more targeted ads.
Very true… They harvest my nut sessions no doubt.
waking up to see my underscores have been harvested GODDAMNIT GOOGLE!
That’s because it’s not a clock, it’s a private information stealing app disguised as a clock.
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.
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).
Early 2024 Google announced a privacy policy is required for all apps on the play store.
A privacy policy doesn’t just say how data is transmitted and used it can also just say data is not transmitted or used for any purpose.
yiu do know that, every two seconds, it goes tiktok?
Short answer: Google Play
Long answer: Google Play and/or people with special requests like https://lemmy.ml/post/12332630
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
I don’t even, I can’t even…
Good news gamers, it only works if you sleep alone!
