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For some reason no one has remarked on one of my biggest problems with Jelly Bean - that Google no longer lets you opt-out of being tracked. There are two loca
by jellicle 14y ago
For some reason no one has remarked on one of my biggest problems with Jelly Bean - that Google no longer lets you opt-out of being tracked. There are two location services, which used to be called coarse (uses names of nearby Wifi networks and such) and fine (GPS). Google now won't let you use coarse without also opting in to having your location sent to Google at all times, whether you are using any application or not. So, for example, Google Maps doesn't work unless you opt in to being tracked at all times. Google Now doesn't work at all unless you opt-in to being tracked at all times. Etc.
In prior versions of Android, being tracked 24/7/365 was a separate checkbox you could opt out of while retaining full location functionality when you desired it, e.g. for Google Maps. No longer.
No one in the press seems to have picked up on this unadvertised feature change of Jelly Bean.
- guelo 14y agoI'm not sure if you're right about this change but it doesn't really matter. Cops are all over location data from cell towers, the phone companies don't even require subpoenas to give them access to it. And there's absolutely no way to opt out of it except by not using a cell phone.
- gareim 14y agoAre you sure? I was under the impression (CM10 on SIII) that you could opt out of wifi based location services and choose to only use GPS satellites for GMaps.
- tresta 14y agoIt's not like that on my Nexus 7. I can choose only to use the GPS in the Location services settings, or I can choose to use "Google's location service", which sends information to google.