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Your complaints are down to the nature of the "one size fits all" approach in use here. If an app offers 99% online experiences, and there's one part of the se
by daveoc64 6y ago
Your complaints are down to the nature of the "one size fits all" approach in use here.
If an app offers 99% online experiences, and there's one part of the service where you can choose to have something physically shipped to you, they have to say that they collect your physical/mailing address. There's no way for the app to tell you when it does or doesn't do that.
The same is true for many other things - optional 2FA via SMS (phone number), optional search for nearest location (location tracking) etc.
- shuckles 6y agoIt seems like the policy has an exception for infrequent data collection with user consent that’s not core to the functionality of your app (c.f. “Optional Disclosure”): https://developer.apple.com/app-store/app-privacy-details/ https://developer.apple.com/app-store/app-privacy-details/
- daveoc64 6y agoI'm glad there's an exception like that. It will mean that things like a form to contact support won't require an app to list a whole bunch of data that isn't normally collected. I think perhaps that there needs to be some better way of distinguishing how the categories work. Should anyone be surprised that Amazon needs payment details and an address to send you something?