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Can you give a couple simple examples of the kinds of things might be revealed through loss of privacy in such an app, that would be very damaging?

• Robin_Message 7y ago
  Affairs. Iron-clad proof a minister violated some lockdown restrictions. The location of someone hiding from an abusive partner. The new name of someone in a witness protection programme. The identity of a defendant in an important but secret trial.
  • supernova87a 7y ago
    I'm not sure how any of these are not already searchable / discoverable by someone abusing the cellular system that already knows phone locations all the time?
    • voz_ 7y ago
      Agreed. A lot of the privacy hullaballoo I read on HN feels like tin-foil-hattery. Who cares what kind of app you have tracking your GPS on your phone, when every surveillance camera in London knows exactly where you have been? If you want real privacy, it has to come from getting the right privacy aware, privacy understanding, people in power. Anything short of that wont make a whit of difference.
    • astrobe_ 7y ago
      That's utterly broken logic. If you are doing well with a missing finger on your right hand, certainly it won't bother you if we chop the same finger of your left hand ?