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> Google, in its wisdom, has tied "Location" into things like BLE Scanning and WiFi scanning That line implies Google made a "stupid mistake" here, when to me
by mtgx 8y ago
> Google, in its wisdom, has tied "Location" into things like BLE Scanning and WiFi scanning
That line implies Google made a "stupid mistake" here, when to me it seems like it was very much a calculated/malicious move.
- _underfl0w_ 8y agoI think by this point Google is an exception to Hanlon's Razor.
- ryanbrunner 8y agoI'm failing to understand how it would be malicious - without this permission setting apps would absolutely be able to pinpoint a user's location. I can sort of agree that more fine-grained permissions could be helpful, but asking for something like "Allow this app to access Wifi signals" doesn't convey the privacy risk to the user, and so putting it under location makes sense to me.