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Is anyone actually surprised by this?

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[-] tux@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

Collecting keystrokes is very different from collecting text inputted into fields. Keystroke rhythms is even more alarming as that is often used to identify users despite them using privacy settings, or used to collect what’s typed via audio collection.

Your argument that this is no different than other apps is complete crap. Don’t trust any app that collects that information

[-] Ferk@lemmy.ml 5 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

The argument stands, though.

Yes, not ALL other apps do that, but the comment was specifically talking about companies like Google and Meta... they definitely do collect incomplete strings from search forms (down to individual characters) when they display search suggestions, for example. They might not mention "keystrokes" in the legal text, but I don't see why they wouldn't be able to extrapolate your typing pattern since they do have the timing information which should be enough data to, at some level, profile it.

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