3 ms·
And Apple is 100% sure of exactly what happens with that location data. I'd be happy to get some limited exceptions to this, like "3rd party camera apps can ge
by wlesieutre 6y ago
And Apple is 100% sure of exactly what happens with that location data.
I'd be happy to get some limited exceptions to this, like "3rd party camera apps can get pre-granted location access, but only if the developer agrees that the location data will be used for nothing but EXIF tags, and if it is ever found to have left the device the developer gets delisted from the app store."
- fragmede 6y agoThere isn't a box inside of Apple HQ marked 'location data, do not eat', so Apple isn't actually 100% sure where the location data is. There are numerous safeguards, both in their device and the online platform to try and make sure it never leaks, but no one other than their marketing team would say 100%.
- wlesieutre 6y agoThat's true, I shouldn't say 100%. But the location data is in my iCloud Photos box, which I think Apple will at least internally take a hard look at anything that wants to access it. If the iPhone calculator app team said "We're going to turn this into a social calculator and it's going to use your photo library to automatically identify receipts to calculate tips and splits, and we're going to do the image processing on the server and make a database of where we identified your receipts to help with identifying restaurant payment locations," somebody higher up would tell them "No, we need to do receipt recognition all on-device." That makes it a lot easier to avoid accidental data leakage.