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Always-on location tracking isn't about finding your lost devices - it's about the tracking data. The "feature" is just the hook to trick us into adopting it.
by 0xbadc0de5 3y ago
Always-on location tracking isn't about finding your lost devices - it's about the tracking data. The "feature" is just the hook to trick us into adopting it.
- dangus 3y agoAs a user of the feature on the Apple side I find the feature to be incredibly useful. It’s saved me from waiting in hour-long lost luggage lines at the airport on multiple occasions because I know not to bother waiting when my bag is in another country. My location was already being used for Find My for devices/theft protection and your cellular provider has access in a way that you can’t really limit. I think most users are basically getting an extra feature without much different to their privacy landscape (not to say that it’s an incredibly good privacy landscape…but really, someone concerned with corporations collecting their location data is already leaving their cell phone at home).
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