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Anyone else wondering if they are going to disable the feature that records the location of Android devices and sends it back to Google?
by ares2012 15y ago
Anyone else wondering if they are going to disable the feature that records the location of Android devices and sends it back to Google?
- code_duck 15y agoIt's not hidden or secret at all, and I'm pretty sure they'll have complete control of the OS here. I'm not wondering if the military can figure out how to do that.
- yanw 15y agoI suppose it's this week's flavor of moral/techno panic so I won't dismiss this question as stupid. Android is opensource so they can use and modify it as they please, as for sending location data, it's the maps app that sends triangulation data when used to refine it's location capabilities, it's covered in the TOS and the data is anonymous. And since people evidentially don't like wardriving this method is a more efficient and less costly alternative and the benefit to the user is obvious.