I’m talking about things like approximate location, file/album specific media access, system wide camera and mic access, camera/mic use indicator, permission logs, data safety page for apps in play store etc.

Who are they trying to fool here? Any person who is truly aware about privacy knows Google cannot trusted in this domain. I don’t believe Google just decided to turn ‘not evil’ in one night and bring all these additions that actually have any impact on us end users. Google might just as well have the same access to our devices’ data if not more and they wouldn’t mind letting third party apps have access to it. Operating at such a humongous scale globally, being the lifeline of nearly all individuals and industries and predating off them as their primary source of revenue, they have complete power to ignore or silence the privacy minded individuals like us, yet they bothered to implement and provide us these features.

I cannot come up with any reasonable answer for this apart from what I think of this as some sort of publicity stunt to compare themselves with the privacy features Apple introduced in their softwares. What are your thoughts?

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      1 year ago

      Where I live, it’s illegal to charge different prices to different customers. I pay exactly the same as anybody else, regardless of what settings I set on my Android phone.

      Stop spewing nonsense.

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          1 year ago

          it is not illegal to obfuscate the product listing

          You do realize I don’t live in your country, right?

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              1 year ago

              Hahahah no. I mean, it was clear enough you have zero idea about what you’re talking about. But this comment now makes it extra clear.

              Companies that provide local services need a local entity and follow local laws. Wonder why so many US companies comply with GDPR?

              Google Brazil, while of course being tied to Alphabet, is a local entity that can be (and has been) taken to court, need to comply to local legislation, and so on.