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The people saying this isn't an issue probably mean the statement with some amount of generality. What usecase are you imagining that this effects enough to be

• giancarlostoro 7y ago
  Military / covert state ops reliant on customized phone apps probably. I guess the solution is to smash the phone after like on TV.
• _jal 7y ago
  The requirement sounds pretty clear - to use an app that relies on GPS without the rest of the OS or any other component using it. Many of us hold on to the quaint notion that computers we own should be under our control.
  • ducadveritatem 7y ago
    Are you saying that apps should be allowed to directly access GPS antenna/hardware without the system being involved at all? Because that is the only way I see that an app could use the data without the system being in the loop at all. If so, that sounds like a terrible idea to me. Sandboxing off applications from the hardware is a key aspect of security here. My opinion: the system should collect the location data (IF the global location services switch is on) and then parse it out following the user's granular selections for what apps they want to receive it. And that seems to be exactly the case.
    • jonplackett 7y ago
      No that’s not what I’m requesting. I’m requesting that there are switches for ALL the things that use my location for some purpose or send my location some place. Currently there isn’t one for the operating system doing that. Obviously the OS will know my location if Location services are on, it’s a case of what it does or does not do with that data.