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> It is the ease and convenience to which we have become so accustomed that keeps us from choosing more private (but also more clunky) user experiences. Often
by nathan_long 9y ago
> It is the ease and convenience to which we have become so accustomed that keeps us from choosing more private (but also more clunky) user experiences.
Often true, but this is a bad example:
> Sure, you could turn off your geo-location settings for a taxi app so that it stops tracking your every move, but the hassle of having to manually enter your current location every time you want to use it may feel like too much of an effort to be sustainable.
"Tracks your every move" and "needs you to manually enter your location" aren't the only two options. You could have "summon a taxi" button that transmits your current location to a given service one time.
The crucial thing is that the user should have control of what they share with whom. That's what privacy means.
- greggman 9y agoiOS (and android?) have the option to only share gps while the app is running. so for the taxi app example you're sharing no more info than you need to really. turn it on, call a cab, cab arrives, close app. The only info shared is your pick up location. Of course the cab itself could share your destination but I don't see how you'd prevent that as that info is also relevant to the taxi
- norlys 9y agoThat doesn't solve the problem that Google still constantly knows where I am (as long as my OS is Android). Wasn't there an article hinting that our smartphones even track GPS when it's disabled? Also, I'm quite surprised to live in a time where having to manually type an address is considered a problem.