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by fatboy93 1655 days ago
My recent gripe is a ach and every app seemingly wants to have location access, and just bluntly refuses to function without it.

My insurance providers app is really on the nose for it though! They want to monitor my movements to suggest a better fitness regimen.

It really is a terrible state of affairs, that you can't really survive these days without a smartphone, but you also get exploited a bunch.

For eg, in India, they made covid vaccine registrations via their app and more or less you couldn't get the vaccine by walking-in.

Given the abysmal existence of personal space and privacy in India, I'm not sure when my data has been breached.