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> Venntel sources its data from weather, games, e-commerce, and other innocuous apps, whose users may be unaware that their location is being sold to the U.S. g
by comeonseriously 6y ago
> Venntel sources its data from weather, games, e-commerce, and other innocuous apps, whose users may be unaware that their location is being sold to the U.S. government.
The weather app would be a little tricky, but clearly what we need is a way to spoof our location. Just pick a random coordinates each time these apps request it. Add as much noise to the data as possible to make it as useless as possible. I don't think it is enough to limit location to when we're using the app. We need to flood these apps with bad data.
- wlesieutre 6y agoIt doesn't fix all location privacy issues, but iOS took a nice step recently of making "precise location" a toggle that users can turn off. For a fitness app, you'd give it a precise location. For weather, knowing what town you're in is probably fine. https://9to5mac.com/2020/08/12/ios-14-precise-location/ https://9to5mac.com/2020/08/12/ios-14-precise-location/
- Mediterraneo10 6y ago> clearly what we need is a way to spoof our location. Just pick a random coordinates each time these apps request it. A handful of us nerds may run some niche version of Android that allows this, but it is hard to imagine Google allowing random location spoofing on all the phones with its Play Services installed, especially considering that Google itself wants to know your exact location for advertising purposes.
- mrguyorama 6y agoIn the developer options of nearly any android phone since like at least 8, is a setting for "Select mock location app". It's current use? People often used it to cheat in Pokemon Go