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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16216017

My grocery store wants to know my BMI

If they were interested in my location they could request location data. What are the odds they are doing this to directly market products to people based on health data?

Inb4 “They already do that based on what you regularly purchase”

Of course, yes they do. This appears to be one more layer on top of it. And surely they wouldn’t share that information with the pharmacy, right?

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[-] BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world -3 points 5 months ago

The prompts from iOS are usually generic, it looks like this just may be a custom prompt from a website, might even be an ad or fake link, luckily iOS locks down their phones in the browser so you can’t really have anything bad happen other than lots of tabs opening but you can just kill the app.

[-] AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

No you’re confusing with Android. The iOS ones are rather specific and health data is health data. It’s certainly not trying to access location or contacts or Bluetooth etc. it’s quite specific.

[-] MotoAsh@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago

The background does not look like a browser.

[-] AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah I’m fairly certain it’s the app. If it were Safari it would either say Safari is trying to… or it would say the website so there would be a domain named. I think it’s fairly conclusive this is the store’s app.

[-] BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

In fairness it’s cropped so you can’t see the whole screen anyway

[-] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

The barcode scanner and search bar are not provided by Apple?

[-] BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Nope that would be in the app or browser. It looks similar to my local grocery app/loyalty website

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