Askold
mccYou say "our app has added weather!" and what I hear is "our app is location tracking you, and we're not even interested in hiding that fact anymore!"
Evi & Emily@mcc it's even more sinister than that from what I understand. With how the gdpr is structured, in the EU this way they don't need to get your consent for sending off your location data to their server because they can argue that they have a need for doing so to support the weather feature. They are then allowed to anonymize the location data and use it for training of AI stuff all without having to ask you because it's (supposed to) no longer contain personal data. (tbc not a lawyer so take this with a grain of salt)
Jeff Miller (orange hatband)@mcc So the weather app doesn't just glue itself to Redmond, Cupertino, Cambridge, Helsinki, or Berkeley, depending on the preferred UI conventions?
(and also: Win10-11 as advertising push platform is terrible and they should just stop with the ad jump scares)