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Re:App Store on iOS 14.6 sends every tap you make in the app... by digitaltrees on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @11:37PM (#33527565)
What is malicious about monitoring use to provide a better product in service of users?
Re:App Store on iOS 14.6 sends every tap you make in the app... by heavyset_go on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @11:55PM (#33527656)
Did you clearly ask the users if you can do it? If not, there's probably a reason why not, because users wouldn't like it if they found out they were being recorded.
Re:App Store on iOS 14.6 sends every tap you make in the app... by carstenhag on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @01:25AM (#33528100)
Imo, as long as you clearly say "here's the choice: opt in or opt out, we are doing XYZ" in clear words, it's fair.

It doesn't really matter whether on each tap you fire a specific event ("TapOnList", "TapOnPurchase") or whether you log all app interactions (where the user taps, are they going around the app not finding something?). Or does it? Where do you cross the line?

If this app would be Facebook I would see your grievances - devs could see personal data. But let's assume it's an app where there's barely any personal data, or specific views do not have this logging enabled.

Re:App Store on iOS 14.6 sends every tap you make in the app... by vorpalhex on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @09:57AM (#33532464)
Since we are discussing an app store:

"pregnancy tracker"

"democrat donation app"

"cancer survivors forum"

Re:App Store on iOS 14.6 sends every tap you make in the app... by vorpalhex on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @12:07AM (#33527712)
What's malicious about reading all your emails to provide you a better email service?
Re:App Store on iOS 14.6 sends every tap you make in the app... by croes on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @01:13AM (#33528042)
The monitoring is the malicious part.
Re:App Store on iOS 14.6 sends every tap you make in the app... by digitaltrees on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @11:27PM (#33634965)
Why? The act of monitoring is not inherently malicious. The word malicious has a specific meaning and definition: an intent to harm. A life guard monitoring a pool clearly isn’t acting with malice and yet is monitoring. A store CCTV camera monitoring shoppers isn’t designed to harm but rather prevent harm. So monitoring a webapp may or may not be malicious depending on the intent and effect of how the monitoring is used.