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Users also need other users to be honest about their location. Consider a dating app; you want to meet real people who live in your area, not a fraudster preten

Users also need other users to be honest about their location. Consider a dating app; you want to meet real people who live in your area, not a fraudster pretending to live just a few blocks away. Or a delivery driver: You want them to actually drive up to your house and ring your bell, rather than just pretend to drive there and drop your package somewhere else. Location data is worth a lot more if it is reliable. The user should be in control of sharing their location. But you shouldn't be able to just provide a fake location.

nottorp 2y ago
> Consider a dating app; you want to meet real people who live in your area, not a fraudster pretending to live just a few blocks away. So you shouldn't be able to use the dating app to set up a date for when you're back home while on a business trip or holiday? Maybe you should just upload proof of residence to the dating app instead. But I'm sure you'd consider THAT a violation of privacy, while 24/7 location tracking of your phone isn't because ... it's electronic? By the way, do you want to give your exact location to a profile on a dating app? Even if they're local, maybe they're serial killers. > Or a delivery driver: You want them to actually drive up to your house and ring your bell, rather than just pretend to drive there and drop your package somewhere else. This other case is legitimate but it can be solved by issuing the driver a work device that has tracking. Unfortunately the other 10000 cases are unneeded violations of privacy.