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95 points

A privacy policy could literally say “our policy is to track and store nothing”. Having one does not make it evil.

In the case of Google, I would not be surprised if it stays running in the background using a relatively large amount ram just for fun.

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In this case, it redirects to Google’s general privacy policy that covers all their services. Anyway Google’s calculator stores a history of all the calculations you did in your account somewhere. So I guess it needs to have a policy stating what they do with that data.

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It’s shit like this that makes me want to never use another Google app or service.

What possible justification is there for storing history of calculations in a calculator app?

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I’m not saying I agree with their justification but I could see why they might be collecting yet another data point: education level. If someone constantly uses a calculator for simple calculations they might have a low education level. People in that demographic will be served different ads than more educated people.

It sucks, but I could see Google doing that.

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At some point somewhere, someone is going to figure something out with what you typed into it and advertise something to you.

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while True(): youtube.background.play( video=rick_astly_nggyu, exclusive_ads_mode = true, audio=mute )

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