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The majority of people aren’t going to ask all their apps and services to stop tracking them. This is for the minority of users who might be being tracked by an
by riazrizvi 7y ago
The majority of people aren’t going to ask all their apps and services to stop tracking them. This is for the minority of users who might be being tracked by an abusive ex, or an employee at a big company who wants temporary privacy to do a job interview at another company without it getting flagged by HR. If the data is being collected, we have seen in the press that the odds are high that it is being monetized/sold.
- dkonofalski 7y agoThis is talking about wideband location scanning, not location services for an app. Apple's location services already do allow you to turn them off on a per-app basis.
- metaphor 7y agoDelusional. Who cares if your Apple device constrains location information when, stochastically speaking, other devices within your proximity won't. This has been meta for a long time: WiFi, Bluetooth, cell towers, TPMS, just to name a few common mappings. UWB is yet another PHY contributing to the datapool.
- dkonofalski 7y agoWith Apple devices, at least, the location of said devices is never reported to anyone other than the device owner. Apple uses anonymous Mac addresses that are mapped on device to do their triangulation and they don't identify to other devices. Even if another devices were keeping a list of every device that attempted to connect to it, it would never get the same value twice nor would it get an accurate address so it would be functionally useless to anyone trying to collect it using that info.