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musicalcactus@midwest.social
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Why are they collecting financial information??

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Carde@lemmy.ml
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And why Health and Fitness?

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ֆᎮ⊰◜◟⋎◞◝⊱ֆᎮ@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Biometric data.

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Lyxea@lemmy.worldOP
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they want everything… even they got banned in Europe because of this

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nottheengineer@feddit.de
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They weren’t banned, they just preemptively pulled out because they knew they couldn’t pull this shit in europe.

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Lyxea@lemmy.worldOP
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thanks for the correction

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Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de
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Id guess adspace for rich people can be sold at a premium.

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MedianMahomesValue@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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Because of in app purchases and commerce? Of all the things in this list that is the least surprising.

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automater@lemmy.one
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So many people are going to sign up and never look at this once.

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Lyxea@lemmy.worldOP
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and that’s probably the scariest part

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pips@lemmy.film
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What’s crazy is even Instagram and WhatsApp don’t have this many permissions.

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astrobound@lemmy.world
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IG and WhatsApp definitely still get all the telemetry they need - just through other methods or through OS level permission loopholes unfortunately

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electromage@lemm.ee
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No because that would hinder their ability to dump information about everything they’re doing and who they’re with for attention.

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Netto Hikari@social.fossware.space
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You… are shocked about that? Really?

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Skintdragoon@lemmy.world
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I love that it states that you can request for your data to be deleted with no explicit wording stating that it will be

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The dogspaw @midwest.social
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You can request we delete your data and maybe we will lie and say we did when we didn’t actually and maybe we will just tell you to fuck off in nice corporate language but either way you can rest safely knowing we won’t delete your data and will probably let it be stolen by black market hackers

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Sabakodgo@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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I am surprised the font is not tiny.

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