• lud@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    That is what I thought they meant.

    Tracking the keyboard like they said would be extremely invasive and extremely illegal.

    Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

    (And yes some local tracking is needed to predict words but that’s very different from collecting data)

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        8 months ago

        Yes, you shouldn’t download every random keyboard app on the app store or play store.

        It’s just that it would be insane for an even slightly well known company to do stuff like that. I would be happy (or concerned really) to be proven wrong but that would obviously require actual evidence.

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          8 months ago

          I don’t think it would be insane at all. I just think it’s unlikely. Big well known companies do wildly illegal stuff all the time, for instance, Meta (Facebook) in the article posted here.

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      8 months ago

      In evaluation of threats, that standard is way too high. The possibility is real even if unlikely. Unlikely things happen daily we just can’t predict which ones, because they’re each unlikely.