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This the apology I usually hear, and it is no longer true! Google has with every android release pushed this a bit further. In Android 12 it demands (1) backgr

• kllrnohj 5y ago
  "Bluetooth may leak your location" is not a result of this. It's the result of the increasingly widespread prevalence of bluetooth location devices. That is, bluetooth modules whose sole purpose it to be location beacons that can be looked up ( eg https://www.inpixon.com/technology/standards/bluetooth-low-energy https://www.inpixon.com/technology/standards/bluetooth-low-e... ). See also the massive amount of bluetooth tags these days from Tile, AirTags, etc... Android didn't used to require precise location to access bluetooth. This permission got "coarser" over time as the result of people using bluetooth specifically for location. And you'll note that Google / Pixel don't make any bluetooth tracking beacons. They didn't make this mess, they just reacted to it. The reality is letting an app scan for bluetooth means it can probably get your precise location in a non-trivial amount of places. Same as letting an app scan for wifi.
• izacus 5y ago
  > Google has with every android release pushed this a bit further. In Android 12 it demands (1) background (2) precise positioning and (3) a GPS position lock. This is not true. At all.