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How about we just ban the collection of precise geolocation? Wouldn't that be a better solution?

• Mithriil 6mo ago
  I would expect such a law to be lobbied to death.
• davebren 6mo ago
  You can have legitimate use cases where it's a core functionality of the application to store it, so the user obviously knows it's being collected and agrees by using it.
  • foresto 6mo ago
    Storage accessible only to the user is usually not what we mean when we say data collection.
    • davebren 6mo ago
      If data is collected and stored on a server, that is what we mean when we say data collection.
• warkdarrior 6mo ago
  So you want to ban all mapping apps and all fitness apps?
  • ssl-3 6mo ago
    Nothing external needs my precise location to navigate with a map. An approximate location is sufficient to deliver to my device a map of an area I'm in, and of the overall route, and all of the details that are useful for navigation. Fitness apps can be local. We have pocket supercomputers; certainly, we don't need help from the clown to keep track of how far (or how energetically) we biked or walked today, or where that took place.