Electronic device, method for controlling electronic device, and recording medium

A method for controlling an electronic device, the method comprising:

• performing processing in such a manner that a permission state indicating whether an operation representing user agreement with a permission matter regarding transmission of information from the electronic device to a transmission destination has been received is stored;
• acquiring first information indicating whether the permission matter that corresponds to a region of the electronic device has been updated, from an external device;
• in a case where the permission state indicates that an operation representing agreement has been received, and in a case where an acquisition status in the acquiring is not a status indicating that an update has been executed, performing control to, in first control, transmit information to the transmission destination without displaying a reception screen for receiving agreement with the permission matter from a user after acquisition of the first information;
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• in a case where the permission state indicates that an operation representing agreement has been received, and in a case where an acquisition status in the acquiring is a status indicating that update has been executed, performing control to, in second control, display the reception screen for receiving agreement with the updated permission matter from a user after acquisition of the first information and before transmission of information to the transmission destination is performed.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing one or more programs for executing a method for controlling an electronic device, the method comprising:

• performing processing in such a manner that a permission state indicating whether an operation representing user agreement with a permission matter regarding transmission of information from the electronic device to a transmission destination has been received is stored;
• acquiring first information indicating whether the permission matter that corresponds to a region of the electronic device has been updated, from an external device;
• in a case where the permission state indicates that an operation representing agreement has been received, and in a case where an acquisition status in the acquiring is not a status indicating that an update has been executed, performing control to, in first control, transmit information to the transmission destination without displaying a reception screen for receiving agreement with the permission matter from a user after acquisition of the first information;
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• in a case where the permission state indicates that an operation representing agreement has been received, and in a case where an acquisition status in the acquiring is a status indicating that update has been executed, performing control to, in second control, display the reception screen for receiving agreement with the updated permission matter from a user after acquisition of the first information and before transmission of information to the transmission destination is performed.

An electronic device comprising:

• a display;
• a storage;
• and
• at least one memory and at least one processor and/or at least one circuit which function as:
• a reception unit configured to receive an operation representing user agreement with a permission matter regarding transmission of information from the electronic device to a transmission destination;
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• a display control unit configured to perform control to display, on the display, information indicating a uniform resource locator (URL) that is a URL for displaying a permission matter stored in a server, and is a URL to which additional information making identifiable a region where the electronic device is installed, based on information stored in the storage, is added.