I spent a year building an Android course for the elderly

Agreed. If I were to get my mom to try this course, the first thing she will comment on is that she can't understand the accent. Ironically her own accent is much stronger. She just isn't very tolerant when it comes to focusing on something.

I'm quite ignorant about my phone. I struggle to send someone a photo with it. Every time I have to interact with android for anything trickier than making a phone call or sending a text I just end up angry and frustrated.

I don't use apps on my phone except for phone calls and texts, mostly because I have no clues whatsoever.

I'm probably in your target audience, but:

1) Too expensive for something I'm not convinced will improve my life (it seems to me that people who know how to use smartphones spend 90%+ of their free time looking at it, rather than interacting with real live people), which leads to

2) How will learning this make my life better?

I am just going to leave this here: https://www.enforcementtracker.com/

Yeah, you better comply. And it is also pretty simple — if you don't so anything that requires that you get informed consent from your users you don't need to ask them.

Each combination of personal datum and purpose requires such consent if it isn't a strictly needed purpose (legitimate interest). Example: If you have an online shop you can e.g. collect someones address for the purpose of shipping — if they order and enter there address the user implicitly gave you their informed consent that they agree to you using that address to ship the product to them. Logical: when they order and pay money it can be assumed they want to give their address for that purpose.

They did not give you consent to sell that same address off to the highest bidder. If that is what you need to do, you would have to explicitly ask them to whom you want to sell that data and what they plan to do with it — same data, but different purpose. Not legitimate interest since you don't strictly need to do that to sell a product. And you better have a clear wording describing that purpose otherwise you collected uninformed consent and that is worth zlich. If you feel like you need to trick users into agreeing, that is what the law aims to prevent.

IP adresses and such have also been ruled personal data. Server side logging for technical purposes is legitimate interest, but storing the same data anywhere (not only cookies!) for the purpose of ad tracking requires you to get the users informed consent before collecting the data. You can assume that if it can be used to personally identify a user in a sea of users, it is personal data, even if it needs to be used in conjunction with other data to reach that identifiability.

Also: if there is a million "No" switches with two menu layers and one green "Accept" button: you created a nice toy there, but it didn't gather informed concent from your user and is therefore utterly useless. Informed consent must be given freely. If you make one easier than the other it hasn't been given freely. If you visually code one as the good/default and the other as the bad/meaningless/complicated choice, the choice was not made freely. Play stupid games, win stupid prices.

The law is pretty clear on all that, lived reality hasn't cought up yet and people pay real money for that. I recommend that you just read the law, it is probably worth to read instead of copying what everybody else (including the big ones) are doing.

>They just wanted their stuff to work.

That's the normal attitude people have to almost everything.

I'm sure you can name something you only care to see work and not know how it works; electronics is that to that other person.

It's also why software have (d)evolved to remove customization, because most people don't change the defaults anyway (they don't even know what a "default" is besides the financial term, maybe).

>Whatsapp, indeed is a good idea, will add that, thanks!

And then, since you have one base covered for one "sphere" of the world, you also need to cover Telegram and Facebook Messenger, rofl