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I don't mind fake personal data, like contacts or photos, but once you get into locations I'm iffy. If it's being used locally for showing your location on a m
by wlesieutre 3y ago
I don't mind fake personal data, like contacts or photos, but once you get into locations I'm iffy.
If it's being used locally for showing your location on a map, or searching for nearby businesses, sure, give it fake data.
But if you're talking about an app that does internet speed tests and maps the speeds for different cellular providers, or lets users report local weather conditions to improve forecasts, then I have no problem with those apps being able to say "Either give us an accurate location, or give us no location, we don't want your fake location."
The platforms would have to be an adjudicator of which apps get an exemption for users contributing back data that will affect other people rather than just influencing their own browsing experience.
I think Apple has come up with some good middle grounds on this, you don't have to grant an app "precise location," and you can grant photo access via a system provided image picker that only shows the app photos that you've selected.
- userbinator 3y agoTrue freedom is freedom to do things that others might not like.
- wlesieutre 3y agoLike the freedom to operate a service that only accepts real location data?
- sickill 3y agoAs long as I have freedom and means to feed it fake data as real data :)