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I don’t see how voluntarily letting a service see your location is an invasion of privacy.
by okwubodu 5y ago
I don’t see how voluntarily letting a service see your location is an invasion of privacy.
- DenverCode 5y agoI don’t believe that was their point. If someone chooses to be privacy focused, then they will likely opt out of the things that they can control - that doesn’t change because there are others they can’t.
- websites2023 5y ago“Voluntarily” is doing some heavy lifting there. Is it “voluntary” if it’s required to use the service — including aspects that don’t “need” it? Is it “voluntary” if the use of that data is governed by one-sided terms that the collecting party can change at any time, for any reason, with little notice or no notice at all? Is it “voluntary” if the technology is so complex that any average-intelligence user could not possibly weigh the pros and cons of such a decision in the face of a $1T company’s cabal of PhD holding ML scientists inventing new ways to exploit that information? At this point, location tracking by companies is about as “voluntary” as using the web itself. Or about as voluntary as actions which are performed with a pistol to one’s head.