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This sort of thing is why we sometimes need a platform regulator / "App Store". Customers can't defend themselves against such intrusions of privacy from their
by diebeforei485 5y ago
This sort of thing is why we sometimes need a platform regulator / "App Store".
Customers can't defend themselves against such intrusions of privacy from their school/government.
And employers too. They want you to respond to emails at all hours, and ask for way too much control over your device in exchange. This is slowly being changed with Android work profile and Apple "user enrollments", thankfully.
- chuckee 5y agoI sure am glad we have Google and Apple looking out for us, instead of the traditional unions.
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- aaomidi 5y agoOr alternatively basic privacy laws that cover students, etc too.
- acdha 5y agoIt needs to be a legal requirement with teeth: these tools would never be allowed through the app store approval process but that's not a problem as long as they're allowed to simply say you have to buy a laptop instead. One alternate way to prevent this would be liability: if the institutions using this had to reimburse all of their users for every security hole in their mandatory software or the risk due to the security settings they require you to disable, it'd complete change the calculation for them.
- capableweb 5y agoI don't really understand your point. ProctorU has apps on both Play Store and App Store, how does Apple and Google save us here? Seems they have no problem hosting software for ProctorU.
- diebeforei485 5y agoWhat they have on the App Store and Play Store doesn't come close to the invasiveness of their desktop apps. > Seems they have no problem hosting software for ProctorU. The restrictions are on what their apps can do, not on who published it.
- Siira 5y agoApp stores are actually an enabler for this sort of cancer; Apple is already speaking about reporting people to the police, they can obviously add an anti-cheat as well. And there will be no way escaping that.