With anything Google you have to worry about privacy. Where is the privacy policy? Does it associate information it finds on your PC to your Google identity?

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encom 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

On a related note: WHY does the stock calculator and clock apps on my Google Pixel phone even have a fucking privacy policy?

	▲	giobox 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		I don't find this particularly egregious - Google has long required ALL apps on the Android store to provide a privacy policy, even if they collect no data whatsoever. A privacy policy can help confirm the absence of data collection as much as it can also be used to explain how collected data (if any) is used. If anything it's a helpful change, as it provides a standardized way for apps to confirm they collect no data. Any app submitted to the iOS store has the same requirement to provide a privacy policy too, and again even if no data is collected.

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nerdsniper 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I can't find any privacy policy at all. There's a bullet point on the page about "search history" but nothing that I can comprehensively analyze. It can search my files so without any additional information I have to assume any/all contents of my documents might be sent to google for more efficient indexing.

General note for app developers: Try to think of the worst, most sociopathic things you could do with your app's level of access. Then reassure your customers by using your privacy policy to create a legal obligation never to do the things which would enable the ability to do those things.

If you don't tell me you're not doing it (in a way that I can clearly sue you if you do), I have to assume that you are doing the absolute worst things your app is technically capable of doing with the data it has access to. That's just the way the world works these days.

	▲	tonyedgecombe 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		>It can search my files so without any additional information I have to assume any/all contents of my documents might be sent to google for more efficient indexing. Or even AI training, your companies secret sauce recipe might be regurgitated on demand for your competitors.