The play store page for this app states:
- No data shared with third parties
- This app may collect these data types
- Data isn’t encrypted
- You can request that data be deleted
I just checked the BM2 app (subject of the blog post series) and they have updated with the same detail [2], updated on the 25th of June 2023.
I'd like to think my blog post put some pressure on them to fix it at risk of their app being pulled. Doesn't excuse them though.
[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dc.bm6
[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dc.battery...
It's a fine line between data collection for commercial reasons and spying. Of course the mis-representation is an issue all by itself and Apple/Google should kill this app for that reason alone if they are going to be consistent.
No there is not. Your permission is the line
Requesting is easy... but trusting the whole "Yeah, we definitely deleted that data you asked us about" is where things can be tricky. :/
https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0BLG9Z462
You can click the images where the third one contains a comparison. Interesting that pretend that BM6 has this as a special feature since it just is a feature of the app.
The QR code [0] on the device points to this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dc.bm6
So I checked other URLs like https://link.quicklynks.com/bm3.html and https://link.quicklynks.com/bm4.html, and the latter redirects to https://www.leagend.com/ which operates this YT channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqkvyOFP5cXQ02f3h1Ns42Q
[0] http://link.quicklynks.com/bm6.html