This. Although Iâm not sure if itâs about in-app display, but it needs to be on the store and on a website somewhere.
The default Samsung Calculator doesnât display a privacy policy (or any menu options really) in-app, but you can find them as a link at the bottom of the âSee Detailsâ page under âData Safteyâ on the play store. Annoyingly, itâs just a generic set of terms that covers most of their products/services. That document says they collect and share all sorts of data, but the store page for the calculator say no data collected.
This is why privacy policies are a virtue signaling joke. They all start with âwe respect your privacyâ which is so objectively, categorically, false 99% of the time that it should be considered illegal (e.g. false advertising) for the org to even associate those words with their business, in any capacity. Every evilcorp has one policy that is hundreds of pages long and covers everything they ever have done, and ever will do, across every subsidiary and product of the entire umbrella organization. The whole privacy policy system is designed so every consumer rubber stamps them and legally absolves the corporation for everything they will ever do, because itâs impossible for any human to read or understand them. By impossible I mean literally impossible â you would need more than a lifetime to read them, let alone comprehend themâŠ
If we didnât live in a capitalist dystopia, privacy policies wouldnât be needed most of the time, because data laws qould be so comprehensive they explicitly apply for 99% of interactions, and every system would be designed from the ground up for zero trust (e.g. all data is E2EE). But in the 1% of cases where they are needed theyâre dynamically generated from templates, based on a users current preferences/settings. The âuse X appâ policy would be different from the âintegrate all of my other various PII linked services to my accountâ policy. In the case of a completely offline calculator, with no API, and no telemetry/analytics (or them all disabled by default) the policy would not even be a link; just a one-liner that says âApp can be used with zero data collectionâ. If you download the app and choose to enable a data collection setting, thatâs when you would be shown the policy related to the specific data points that setting relates to.
Itâs Apple Review Guideline 5.1.1:
(i) Privacy Policies: All apps must include a link to their privacy policy in the App Store Connect metadata field and within the app in an easily accessible mannerâŠ
For Android itâs in their User Data article:
Privacy Policy All apps must post a privacy policy link in the designated field within Play Console, and a privacy policy link or text within the app itselfâŠ
This is just talking about developers having to include a link to their privacy policy in the respective field in the App Store/Play Store
