Is there an opt-out? Or, more importantly, was there an explicit opt-in?
Data from crashes on my device is still my data, not Google's. Google can pop up an alert telling me things went pear-shaped, and then ask to send it back to the devs for analysis.
You're not wrong about ownership of data. But highlighting Ring and Google in this manner is some seriously biased and dishonest reporting.
If it really were just crash reporting, this would have probably gone unreported on.
The bar to deciding that Google is getting user's data somehow and this is newsworthy is lower, and requires no grasp of underlying details. Technology journalists are often journalists first, and technologists second if at all. I don't blame them, it's the nature of the job.
How do you know this?
Is it "pedantic hand-wringing" to not want my DNA analyzed by an advertising company as well?
The bar should be a lot higher for them, it's not some free tic-tac-toe app.
Not by me. I'm not going to debug the app; I'm just going to kill it and restart it. If the developer of the app wants my data to help his debugging, he needs to ask.
> if an action you took on the client causes a crash on my server I'm not going to ask you for permission to look at my crash logs.
Of course not, but your crash logs aren't coming from my phone. If you want to look at data from my phone, you need to ask.