How do privacy and app permisions relate?

[TsengSR]

How is the claim of data privacy relating to the permissions asked in the app itself on app store??

Like "everything is stored locally" vs

Why is data shared with other companies and organizations, if the data is supposedly stored locally on the phone only?

Also why does the app need to collect email? Developer communication can't be, for that you'd provide a link (with YOUR Email) and it opens in your favorite mail app where the sender it sent from. There is no technical need why the app needs access to email at all!

Would love to hear why these are required and in contrast to the claims that everything is stored locally and your plans to address these and remove the permissions in question.

[Snowpop]

About the data shared, I assume that's the search food functionality, which checks the FDC's database

[TsengSR]

I don't see a reason why seach functionality justifies sharing of private data. There are easy ways to do that w/o leaking users privacy, i.e. by running a non-logging api-gateway of sorts. The mobile app calls the API-Gateway, which delegates the requests to the FDC database/api. This way the FDC api only sees the IP of the api gateway server and no private data is leaked.

Calling an API directly from the application is probelmatic, there are a lot of ways to identify users, such as digital fingerprinting that's sent out on every request.

[Snowpop]

Yep