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This looks like fraud by Amap and negligence by Google (and Apple). The 100k users have cause for a class action. However the upfront cost of such a thing is pr

This looks like fraud by Amap and negligence by Google (and Apple). The 100k users have cause for a class action. However the upfront cost of such a thing is prohibitive. There is also the possibility that this is a national security issue. Exfiltrating location data to China for 100k Americans, probably including government and military employees, violates the law. But again, it's all about the cost. Also ambivalence (as others have pointed out).

XorNot 3y ago
The issue is that once again the permissions model as implemented on phones is complete garbage. Showing a list of permissions with "accept" as the only option is brain dead. Google easily has the money and engineering resources to provide a complete fix to this issue (multiple spoofing options, deny options etc.) but of course they don't want to - because Google's business is advertising and advertisers want your location data. And your frequently visited locations. And wifi networks. And probably brand names of whatever is on your network. We desperately, desperately need to get open-source considered as a national security agenda item. We need hardware vendors forced to publish full interface specifications. We probably need to require firmware blobs to be open source and tell Nvidia and AMD to stop breaking the law (i.e. they both suspect they'd be done for copyright/patent law if they had to publish their source code so they don't).