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Commit 3fd97685 authored by Sayantan Roychowdhury's avatar Sayantan Roychowdhury
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Merge branch 'privacy-score-doc-update-38293' into 'master' 

MR: Update the documentation on how the Privacy Score is calculated

Closes e/os/backlog#1822

See merge request e/documentation/user!1051
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htdocs/_i18n/en/pages/privacy_score.md

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The source code of the Privacy Score’s computing algorithm is available [here](https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/os/apps/-/blob/main/app/src/main/java/foundation/e/apps/PrivacyInfoViewModel.kt#L78).

The logic for calculating the Privacy Score will be improved further based on feedback and after observing it in practice.



### Privacy policy

Privacy policy of an app is a very important aspect to be aware of. Unfortunately, we can't vet the privacy policies of all apps in existence, but we have taken the effort to shortlist a few apps with bad privacy policies (rated E by [tosdr.org](https://tosdr.org)). These apps are given a score of 0 (zero), regardless of the number of embedded trackers or the permissions requested by the app.



## The Privacy Score’s limits



The Privacy Score is an help provided to App Lounge’s users but it has its limits. For instance: