Aerion<p>I really shouldn't be astonished, but I am 😵.</p><p>This is, of course, utter abuse of user data, but what's even worse is that Google allows this.</p><p><a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Conversations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Conversations</span></a> was taken off Google Play, and forced to remove its contacts linking feature for <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> reasons, despite the fact that no contact data was ever uploaded to any servers, yet <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Citymapper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Citymapper</span></a> is allowed to share highly sensitive precise location data with third parties for the sake of <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/profit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>profit</span></a>?! </p><p>🤬 Goodbye Citymapper!! </p><p>Thankfully we're not exactly short of <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> alternatives: I love how <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/%C3%96ffi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Öffi</span></a> displays the timetables, but we also have <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Transportr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Transportr</span></a> and KDE's <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/KTrip" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KTrip</span></a> (which not only works on Android but also on <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/mobilelinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mobilelinux</span></a>).</p><p><a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/privacymatters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacymatters</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/publictransport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>publictransport</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/surveillancecapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>surveillancecapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>foss</span></a><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://floss.social/@kde" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>kde@floss.social</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://lemmy.kde.social/c/kde" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>kde@lemmy.kde.social</span></a></span></p>