• @[email protected]
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    1291 month 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
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      91 month ago

      Ha! Unlike (some of) you plebs, I live in a very exclusive time zone with less than a billion people in it.

      • @jaybone
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        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.

        Edit: I found this https://distributionofthings.com/world-population-by-time-zone/

        I was wondering if there are like island nations in the middle of the Atlantic or pacific that would be parts of time zones with super low populations. But I’m also guessing most such nations would want to associate with more populous neighboring time zones (for like commerce reasons, communication etc.) which is why time zones aren’t straight lines of latitude. So then that makes me wonder if for those reasons there are time zones with zero population.

        Edit 2: And this https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/questions/12504/least-populated-time-zones#:~:text=2 Answers&text=There is one timezone that,the UTC-12%3A00. Seems to answer my follow up question. Seems there is a timezone with no inhabitants.

        • @Sylvartas
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          I think China is still one giant timezone, yes.

          Edit: There’s a relevant map men episode about that (and the islands thing) but I’m at work right now

        • @DirkMcCallahan
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          21 month ago

          Those were very interesting reads! Thanks for sharing.

    • wander1236
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      381 month ago

      At least Google is adhering to its own policies this time.

      • @PunnyName
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        151 month ago

        Helps that they got sued to hell and back recently.

  • @WhyFlip
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    601 month ago

    Google harvests your sleeping patterns to sell more targeted ads.

  • Daemon Silverstein
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    401 month ago

    It seems like alarms can trigger Google Assistant routines. Alarm sounds can either use local ringtones or YouTube Music. These things, Google Assistant and YouTube Music, they are cloud services. I imagine that the clock’s privacy policy is there due to the usage of these cloud services (along with the rule from Play Store that requires every app to have a privacy policy).

    • ᗪᗩᗰᑎ
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      181 month 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 [he/him]
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      91 month 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.

  • Christopher Masto
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    221 month ago

    Virtually every app collects crash reports and anonymized analytics. Better for them to tell you about it than not.

    • @[email protected]
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      101 month ago

      Apparently my company was sending non-anonymized user data and during a privacy audit by a legal company, they really gave us a threat of being sued up the ass. And we are a MASSIVE company. I can only imagine smaller companies not realizing that.

  • @ohwhatfollyisman
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    181 month ago

    yiu do know that, every two seconds, it goes tiktok?

  • @Aceticon
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    151 month ago

    That’s because it’s not a clock, it’s a private information stealing app disguised as a clock.

    • @finitebanjo
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      121 month 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
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        -31 month 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).

        • @finitebanjo
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          151 month ago

          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.

  • Possibly linux
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    41 month 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.

  • @Sam_Bass
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    41 month 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