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by gzread 87 days ago
Any app that has access to your age category has access to your home directory where much juicier things live. Probably including your email address, and all your passwords.
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I'm a little special and use a hack so I don't even have to provide my e-mail address on git commits to prevent leaking it in my git history. So probably not in my case, but I understand your concern and a lot can be done to improve OS privacy. But "they already know what you eat for breakfast" is not a valid argument to reduce privacy further.