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by andrejguran 1554 days ago
What if the recording is your conversations? What if it's the location of places you visited? What if it's people you're on pictures with? It's still just recording facts about the world? Are you comfortable with apps doing this without any oversight?
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That's fine. Discord already has thousands of conversations that I've had with people. Google has a history of places I've visited and I've had an improved Google maps experience from that data. I don't really take many pictures with people. I would say I am mostly fine with it. It would me nice if they could disclose what they collect though. I think informing consumers is a good thing.
Informing consumers is largely what the GDPR regulations are about - ensuring that data can't be collected without the informed consent of users, and that when it is collected, the users can then see what data is available and how it's being used, along with being able to delete it if they wish.