22july2013

I'm glad Epic has a Privacy Statement for its app store, but it's not very good. Here's what it says:

We encourage developers to request the minimum access necessary for their applications to function properly.

So they "encourage" their developers not to minimize their apps' access to user data. They don't require it. They don't enforce it. 

by requiring explicit consent for each application and for each type of data being accessed.

Now that statement is a little better. Although I'm not completely sure how to reconcile it with the previous statement. In any case, does Epic ever punish software developers for not meeting this requirement? Does Epic ever validate any software to ensure this requirement is met, or is Epic just trusting the software developer? I have no idea, so I'm a little scared to trust the Epic Store. If Epic ever wants me to trust them, they should get far more detailed about the mechanics of their system, especially since they don't have a good reputation on user privacy like Apple does.

(As the article says) we've been using Apple Pay to purchase Walmart goods for five years... here in Canada. And I don't think it's limited to in-store purchases... I believe both their online website and their app for iOS (maybe even for Android) also both accept Apple Pay.

Since 90% of Walmart's products appear to be made in China, I presume China is putting pressure on Walmart to track their users so the Chinese Communist Party can purchase Walmart's user data. ;-)

Was the show's theme played over speakers, or was there silence?

P.S. Please use a spell checker, AppleInsider.

I thought this would become a very busy thread very fast. But it's practically empty (just one post per hour.) It hasn't even in devolved into political hate. I guess AI readers don't use TikTok very much.

Pema said:

M68000 said:

I don’t know how most people have time for it.  I don’t have time or interest.  I already use Facebook (cautiously and sparingly) as well as YouTube.  

the whole saga is a total waste of time. But for those zombies that still rely on the app, can't they get around the ban by using a VPN?

Would Apple and Google be breaking the law if they didn't revoke the certificate in their mobile OS for the TikTok app that's on their phone? How would you run the TikTok app if the app was blocked by the OS? Do you think most users will jailbreak their smartphones?

And could VPN companies be breaking the law if they allowed this? Any VPN company that physically has any servers in the US may be forced to shut down if they didn't block that traffic. It would be very easy for the government to detect if a VPN company was breaking the law.