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Re:Smartphone startups take on Google, Apple and put privacy... by eitland on Monday February 24, 2020 @09:17AM (#22404105)
AFAIK according to GDPR this (to hold non related features hostage) is specifically not allowed.
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Re:Smartphone startups take on Google, Apple and put privacy... by lm28469 on Monday February 24, 2020 @11:07AM (#22405264)
"don't store my data" but also "store the data I want you to store for the features I cherry picked" probably doesn't work under gdpr.
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Re:Smartphone startups take on Google, Apple and put privacy... by rorykoehler on Monday February 24, 2020 @12:37PM (#22406208)
Of course it does. Gdpr is about explicit consent. Don't track my movements 24/7 but let me save places on the map is not a hard thing to comply with.
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Re:Smartphone startups take on Google, Apple and put privacy... by simonh on Monday February 24, 2020 @11:24AM (#22405430)
Who says they are unrelated? Providing access to your location data and history can enable a lot of very useful features that aren't possible without it.
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Re:Smartphone startups take on Google, Apple and put privacy... by eitland on Monday February 24, 2020 @12:11PM (#22405945)
Yep. And that would be OK with GDPR again AFAIK.

But in this case it seems clearly wrong.

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