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Not defending Xiaomi in general, but it's worth mentioning that the stock calculator in MIUI (at least when I last used it) was much more than just a traditiona
by names_are_hard 6y ago
Not defending Xiaomi in general, but it's worth mentioning that the stock calculator in MIUI (at least when I last used it) was much more than just a traditional calculator. It had all kinds of sophisticated functionality that goes beyond our arithmetic, such as currency conversion, which obviously requires network and an api that might very well be third party and require a privacy policy.
So while I assume they're tracking users, I don't think the calculator having a privacy policy is as shocking as it initially sounds.
- grishka 6y agoUh. An API that provides currency exchange rates is a textbook case of a read-only API. Unless that privacy policy is the nonsensical "we receive and process your IP address" (or course you do, that's how the internet works, duh), it has no reason to have one because no data flows in that direction.
- judge2020 6y agoTrying to get legal to sign-off on allowing no-privacy-policy access to anything is going to be hard every time, especially if you do keep personal information like IP addresses for any amount of time (hello gdpr).
- grishka 6y agoBut how can one prove whether a third party stores something? Especially if it's the IP address that it must receive anyway.
- judge2020 6y agoWhile I don't think there would be much investigation on a simple currency API storing user info, most companies aren't in the business of increasing legal risk for the tradeoff of user experience.
- SilverRed 6y agoIP addresses are not identifying info under the GDPR. They are only potentially identifying. The address in your nginx logs does not count, if you are storing other data and can use the IP to identify an individual, now its identifying data.