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Looks more like an ad for your app though... Which for some reason collects tons of data unrelated to health, like messages, location data, and photos/videos/files?


Photos are used to track nutrition -- you choose each photo to upload within the app.

Location is only used, in context, to help find healthy meals near you. (You can use the app with or without enabling this location-based feature; if you don't use it, then we don't ask for location.)

Where are you seeing messages? We don't track messages, so this is probably a mistake in our metadata.


https://play.google.com/store/apps/datasafety?id=com.empiric...

Sorry for being pessimistic, it's just whenever I see a health related app I immediately look at the data collected and data shared sections and get concerned. Especially if it's being shared with insurance companies.

Quick edit: That "messages" part might be only in-app ones. Google does not word that well in the summary.


I see -- yeah, the Android metadata says "in-app messages". That refers to features where you can message support or a doctor within the app. We don't attempt to read your text messages or anything like that.

Your data isn't shared with insurance companies.




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