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The description says it's private, but the legalese it makes you agree to makes no promise. Rather, the opposite:

> We collect information about your activity in our services

Source: https://policies.google.com/privacy#infocollect

The app is open source[0], although given Apple's stance on sideloading it's hard to confirm if you're using the open version.

[0] https://github.com/google-ai-edge/gallery

Two (very quick) minutes on their GitHub repo and it's pretty obvious that they're using firebase-analytics and at the very least seem to be sending URLs[1] and infos such as the model you download or the capacities[2] you use.

[1] https://github.com/google-ai-edge/gallery/blob/main/Android/...

[2] https://github.com/google-ai-edge/gallery/blob/main/Android/...

That’s not the same app as posted which is for iOS.

You're right, they reference IOS in the README.md and link to the GitHub repo from the Apple Store page yet don't include the IOS source, sneaky.

That is the Android repo, where is the iOS repo?

I was about to ask if anybody had looked at what it was sending home. I’m travelling so I’m not in a position to run this through a proxy for a couple of weeks, but also I’m travelling so this could be useful!

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