I’m trying to understand how an app would even get that info in the first place, how that’s classified and why a mobile operating system even has a way to provide that data.
Am I correct in assuming that if an app is used without play store / play store framework that it would not be able to get access to that data?
Thanks!
Scanning and evaluating context from people who don’t use a given service and haven’t consented should be illegal. For example, I don’t use Gmail because I don’t want Google scanning all of my emails. But everyone else does, so Google gets to scan all of my emails anyways when I email other people, and build a profile on me based on other people’s lack of concern for their privacy. This issue should have been legislated years ago, but instead we have so called progressive politicians slurping Facebook’s balls.
No one realised or really cared until the Cambridge Analytica scandal happened, what makes me furious is that this is still happening today. Millions of people joined Threads, even Rochko’s statement on the mastodon blog tends to embrace Meta.
While other mastodon admins declined Meta’s invitation