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Was this Brazilian major app bypassing Apple's location privacy on iOS?
- KMnO4 4y agoI sure hope they were, otherwise this is straight up libel. The post says it went away after restarting his phone, and he hasn’t seen it since.
- thefurdrake 4y agoIn what way is this libel, exactly? Can you detail support for your position? IANAL, but I seem to recall that, in order for something to be libel, the party providing the misinformation has to reasonably believe that the information is incorrect; having a reasonable belief that what one is saying is true isn't libel. iOS shows a message saying an app without location permission is accessing permission, someone reports that thing happened, it's not libel.
- thiagocmoraes 4y agoNot only that. This is about a Brazilian app that only works in Brazil. There are similar concepts in Brazilian law but it certainly doesn't use whatever way US define libel.
- fingerlocks 4y agoIve seen this happen a few times lately, but it was occurring on an app that I was actively developing. It was perplexing because I knew the app wasn’t actually polling for location. It didn’t even have background location capabilities; I could attach a debugger and confirm. Only by resetting the device could I clear the system location alarm. I can eventually reproduce the issue again after a few force quits of the app. It’s a UI bug in iOS. The app was unlikely doing anything malicious.
- kotaKat 4y agoI had it with an application I uninstalled (Paycor Scheduling) still supposedly claiming it was grabbing location even though the .app was fully removed from my device. I also had to restart it to clear that notification.