Post #1736563 · Elektrine

2026-04-21 12:48 UTC

I could also get more info from your habits and you home type and quality from the thermostat. All at your convenience. I didn't have to ask for permission to any private information. Just by the oven app alone I would have clues about your personal life- I would now know about how far you are from home That you are not home That there's no one home or that you don't trust the people you live with to start the oven How much you spend on utilities What's the average temperature you cook food at How long you cook How often you cook Which part of the oven/stove you use most often Where your home is located How often you entertain Where's your favorite grocery store When you start cooking The fact that you are at the grocery buying food to cook that night and how often you do that

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@zikzak025@lemmy.world 2026-04-21 22:08

Not to mention the companion app itself is scraping telemetry data: * What phone you use * What network it's connected to * What times you use your phone * Approximate location * A list of other apps you have installed And that's all before we get into the nitty gritty of how the user actually engages with the app content, or other device permissions the app might request. Maybe "Location" for recommending preheat times based on distance, maybe "Camera" to check doneness, maybe "Nearby devices" to pair with first-party accessories, or maybe "Photos and video" for some shoehorned social media component. They can ask for any permission for ostensibly innocuous/justified reasons, but once those permissions are granted, they have full access to that data to do whatever else they want with it. They'll know who you are, where you are, when you're there, what you're doing there, and who else you're with.

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