• sushibowl@feddit.nl
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    3 months ago

    In this case, it redirects to Google’s general privacy policy that covers all their services. Anyway Google’s calculator stores a history of all the calculations you did in your account somewhere. So I guess it needs to have a policy stating what they do with that data.

    • Takatakatakatakatak@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 months ago

      It’s shit like this that makes me want to never use another Google app or service.

      What possible justification is there for storing history of calculations in a calculator app?

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        3 months ago

        I’m not saying I agree with their justification but I could see why they might be collecting yet another data point: education level. If someone constantly uses a calculator for simple calculations they might have a low education level. People in that demographic will be served different ads than more educated people.

        It sucks, but I could see Google doing that.

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        At some point somewhere, someone is going to figure something out with what you typed into it and advertise something to you.