If the news report mentions that 90% of the apps are glorified websites, and that almost all the websites violate basic privacy expectations, and that you now know that, and we know that, so we will now look exlusively at the other 10% of the apps, OK, this is fine. It’s fine because nothing is being silently swept under the rug.
The news report has to honestly and forthrightly grapple with the fact that the common perecption of what an app is may differ from how some experts in computing prefer to understand it (for good reasons, mind you).
That youtube icon or a facebook icon is what an app is, from the pov of a non-trivial segment of population.
If the news report mentions that 90% of the apps are glorified websites, and that almost all the websites violate basic privacy expectations, and that you now know that, and we know that, so we will now look exlusively at the other 10% of the apps, OK, this is fine. It’s fine because nothing is being silently swept under the rug.
The news report has to honestly and forthrightly grapple with the fact that the common perecption of what an app is may differ from how some experts in computing prefer to understand it (for good reasons, mind you).
That youtube icon or a facebook icon is what an app is, from the pov of a non-trivial segment of population.