Privacy

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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Why does my calculator need a privacy policy? It's a calculator! (lemmy.zip)

submitted 3 months ago by anti_antidote@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] pirat@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

But basic internet permission is given to all apps without asking.

But it really shouldn't be! And GrapheneOS, at least, always asks the user when installing apps that want network permission. If the user doesn't plan on using any network-based features of the app, they can simply decline.

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

Quite so!

I've discovered on Lineage that even denying an app internet permission, the app can apparently know when the device is online. That also shouldn't be possible, I think.