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I'm curious about the Sony App. What information does it get from the phone? The only kind of sensitive permission it asks for is location, and arguably there's

I'm curious about the Sony App. What information does it get from the phone? The only kind of sensitive permission it asks for is location, and arguably there's a functionality related to that (change the adaptive sound reduction as a function of where you are). The other permission it asked for is Bluetooth, which I guess is expected since it uses that to talk to the headphones. It never asked for anything else. I didn't allow it to get my location and I can still get firmware updates and can use it to confirm the codec in use (that's the main reason I have it installed).

jungturk 6y ago
Access to the Bluetooth service itself can cause some problems - both in user tracking (as your device notices and is noticed by other discoverable Bluetooth devices), fingerprinting, and through access to the bluetooth data channels (as mentioned in the article with the Bose Connect app) https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/bluetooth-surveillance.htm https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/bluetooth-surveillance... https://www.soundguys.com/bose-allegedly-tracks-your-information-and-sells-it-to-third-party-companies-12159/ https://www.soundguys.com/bose-allegedly-tracks-your-informa...