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If there weren't privacy concerns, then the SSID API wouldn't be behind a Location permission toggle for iOS and Android. It's not just Google doing it - see h
by xvector 5y ago
If there weren't privacy concerns, then the SSID API wouldn't be behind a Location permission toggle for iOS and Android.
It's not just Google doing it - see https://wigle.net/ https://wigle.net/ with over 10B observations. So your privacy would be at risk even if Google didn't collect SSID/location information.
Fundamentally, asking people not to do something has never been a security measure that's worked. You need to implement some tangible, real protections. We already have those in the case of SSIDs, namely, the SSID and AP information aren't accessible to an app without location permissions in modern operating systems.
- betterunix2 5y agoYou are talking about the privacy of a device user, who may want to prevent apps from learning the location of their own device (and that is the point of the location permission). The claimed privacy issue I was responding to has to do with the privacy of the owner of an AP whose SSID is included in the database.
- xvector 5y agoHow is this at all a privacy issue for the SSID owner? Are you putting PII in your SSID?