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> Then don't ask them and let them explicitly toggle the option to share information. Is incrementing a counter if an app crashes a privacy invasion?
by joshuamorton 7y ago
> Then don't ask them and let them explicitly toggle the option to share information.
Is incrementing a counter if an app crashes a privacy invasion?
- icebraining 7y agoProbably not. The method by which it communicates that increment can be, though.
- raxxorrax 7y agoYes, because you get a bunch of meta information when any device of mine uses my internet connection to connect to your servers to increase that counter. If you save that information or not, you created a trail. I expect from any app that it doesn't establish any connections per default to be honest. You can have that as an option that I can enable if I feel like it.
- joshuamorton 7y agoOk, so what if the app is internet connected and has to communicate with some central server? Think a non-p2p messaging app, or an app for a bank/<some internet thing like youtube or facebook or reddit>?
- raxxorrax 7y agoThen it is obviously allowed to do that for that specific purpose. If you want your flag to be packaged into the data stream, it has to be some option that says "send additional diagnostic data".
- 6gvONxR4sf7o 7y agoThere's a difference between a post request with zero content to some count API and a request with metadata. If there were a way to send a request without even info like IP address, it'd be even less objectionable, but that kind of request doesn't exist on our current tech stack.