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Wouldn't you just put that in your privacy policy so when some bug makes it in (perhaps in upstream code or the OS itself) that causes location tracking to cont
by jrockway 5y ago
Wouldn't you just put that in your privacy policy so when some bug makes it in (perhaps in upstream code or the OS itself) that causes location tracking to continue happening when the app is closed, you're not open to liability?
It is difficult to discern "paranoid" from "evil" when reading legal documents. Unfortunately being paranoid makes them look evil. Maybe they are, maybe they aren't, but there is more than one way of looking at this.
- malikNF 5y ago>Wouldn't you just put that in your privacy policy so when some bug makes it in Well by that reasoning, all legal agreements should just say, "we are not responsible for anything, we take what we want don't, you can't sue us".
- CPLX 5y agoI mean, I’ve seen a lot of legal agreements like that.
- snotrockets 5y agoThat's basically what most EULA read, only in many more words
- babypuncher 5y agoIt seems difficult for something like that to accidentally happen, seeing as background location tracking requires explicit permission requested through APIs provided by the OS.
- porlune 5y agoI wonder if the fear is that you might end up having less than ethical (rogue?) employees that might think they're helping the company by using some form of workaround to track users. I'm not sure if that's overly paranoid or just the right amount of paranoia, but I can imagine the fear.
- CaptainZapp 5y agoUnethical management does that trick just fine. You don't need rogue employees for that. https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/6/10726004/uber-god-mode-settlement-fine https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/6/10726004/uber-god-mode-set...