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> i mean this is cute in an isolated incident, until, you know, all the corporations sell that info to a fascist government who uses it to track dissidents in P
by david_shaw 1y ago
> i mean this is cute in an isolated incident, until, you know, all the corporations sell that info to a fascist government who uses it to track dissidents in Portalnd.
The phones (GPS) and cell networks (towers) have your location anyway. The article -- and what the parent comment was talking about -- is social location sharing.
Although citizen tracking is a valid concern, turning on "Find my Friends" isn't going to make you any more vulnerable.
- Rebelgecko 1y agoIIRC some of the social location sharing options have sold data in the past, eg Life 360 (I think they still sell data but claim that they've started making it aggregated/anonymous)
- stavros 1y agoI have location services off, so at least my phone doesn't usually have my location, and neither does Google.
- lazide 1y agoThat is wildly optimistic.
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- svachalek 1y agoThere are still various Google processes that likely still gather your location, and certainly your phone carrier does.
- stavros 1y agoI don't think Google does if location services are off.
- xethos 1y agoI wouldn't trust that. Google considered that an app-level setting previously, not a choice the user made to deny location data to Google. That kind of attitude is likely to have seeped into the organization, and "We know better" / "The user expects location to work for this even with GPS off" is quite likely still the prevailing attitude. At the very least, trust is hard to gain and easy to lose. Google has lost my trust, and assumptions of good faith have evaporated. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/14/google-location-tracking-data-settlement https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/14/google-lo... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37523992 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37523992
- fsflover 1y ago> turning on "Find my Friends" isn't going to make you any more vulnerable There's definitely a huge difference between actively sending your location to a third party all the time and passive, often illegal data collection by the cell towers that can be stopped whenever you need by switching off the modem.