EECurrent · Last updated 31 August 2026
EECurrent is a news reader for electrical engineers. It is designed so that most of what you do in it never leaves your phone.
We do not ask for your name, phone number, or address. We do not sell or share your data with advertisers. There is no advertising or third-party analytics SDK in the app.
The following never reaches our servers. It lives in the app's private storage and is deleted when you uninstall the app:
| Data | Why it stays local |
|---|---|
| Saved stories, events and job postings | Your reading list is yours. |
| Notes you write on a saved item | These are your own words. They are never transmitted, and no server-side record contains their text. |
| Which stories you have read or dismissed | Only used to avoid showing you the same thing twice. |
Because these are local, we cannot recover them for you if you lose the device. The app's Export button hands the list to your phone's share sheet so you can keep a copy somewhere you already trust.
When you first open the app it creates an anonymous account. This is a random identifier. It is not linked to your name, email, phone number or device advertising ID.
| Data | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Anonymous account identifier | To keep your settings attached to you across app restarts. |
| Notification token | To deliver push notifications. Issued by Expo/Google, not by us. |
| Topics you selected | To decide which stories you are sent. |
| Keywords you added or excluded | To match stories you asked for. Never copied into any analytics record. |
| Job function and industry | To rank stories, and to group interest in conferences. |
| Quiet hours and time zone | To send notifications silently at night. |
| Job filters | So the Jobs tab looks the same on another device you sign in on. |
| Which stories you opened, dismissed, marked irrelevant or saved, and how long you looked | To measure which topic rules are working. Recorded against your anonymous identifier. |
| Which conferences you opened, with the job function and industry you had set at the time | To learn which events matter to which kind of engineer. |
| Anything you type into the Feedback box | To read and act on it. This box is the one place we expect prose from you. |
We do not collect: location, contacts, photos, files, microphone, camera, installed apps, advertising identifiers, or device fingerprints. The app requests no runtime permission other than notifications.
Signing in is optional, and the app works fully without it. Its only purpose is to let you carry your settings to another device.
If you do sign in, our authentication provider stores your email address and links it to the anonymous account you already had. We use it to recognise you when you sign in again. It is never shown to other users and never used for marketing — we do not send email at all.
Signing out detaches the device and returns it to a fresh anonymous account.
| Service | Role |
|---|---|
| Supabase | Database and authentication hosting. |
| Expo & Google Firebase Cloud Messaging | Delivery of push notifications. |
| GitHub Actions | Runs the scheduled collection jobs. Handles no personal data. |
We do not use advertising networks, attribution SDKs, or third-party analytics products such as Google Analytics or Firebase Analytics.
Headlines, conferences and job postings open the original publisher's, organiser's or employer's own page. Those sites are not ours and have their own privacy practices. We do not tell them who you are.
| Data | Retention |
|---|---|
| Your settings | Until you delete your account or uninstall and stop using the app. |
| Reading and conference-click records | Kept while they are useful for tuning the product. |
| Feedback messages | Kept until acted on. |
You can request deletion of everything associated with your account by emailing privacy@eecurrent.com. Tell us the email address you signed in with, or — if you never signed in — send the request from the app's Feedback box so we can identify the anonymous account. We will delete the account and its associated records.
Uninstalling the app removes everything held on the device, including your notes, immediately and permanently.
EECurrent is a professional tool for working engineers and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect data from them.
If this policy changes materially we will update the date at the top and note the change in the app's release notes.