This might be true about most other features of most apps, however your location is actually fairly sensitive information for LOTS of people, and I think you're

This might be true about most other features of most apps, however your location is actually fairly sensitive information for LOTS of people, and I think you're underestimating that. The outrage of a user who disabled location services, but wanted their location uploaded is NOTHING compared to the implications of sharing someone's location without permission. We are talking about life-and-death, in some rare cases (e.g. http://www.petapixel.com/2012/12/03/exif-data-may-have-revealed-location-of-fugitive-billionaire-john-mcafee/ http://www.petapixel.com/2012/12/03/exif-data-may-have-revea...).