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Re:Sex toy company Lovense admits its Android app locally st... by 659087 on Friday November 10, 2017 @11:06PM (#15674946)
> and they forgot to cut of the data part, possibly assuming it was encrypted anyways

At the point in time when Google pulled that stunt, unprotected networks were still incredibly common. A company like Google playing dumb on that, or actually not knowing that, would be pretty sad.

Re:Sex toy company Lovense admits its Android app locally st... by johannes1234321 on Saturday November 11, 2017 @05:36AM (#15675778)
Let's assume they did that on purpose: What's the purpose they get? Some random fragments of communication? They already have more relevant info via Google analytics and such about anybody, than what they gather while driving by ...