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Android 15 may let you control when your location is shared with carriers (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 7 months ago by overflow64@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm going to link my comment from an earlier post of this on a different community.

https://monero.town/comment/4014042

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

yeah and I don't even understand the conversation around accuracy. Even vaguely knowing what im about and doing is to much.

[–] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Time to leave your personal spying gadget at home lol

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 2 points 7 months ago

yeah although ironically as a long time smart phone not user im thinking ove getting one as a camera. sigh

[–] lud@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Imo apps knowing what city I am in is very different from apps knowing exactly where I am. While I wouldn't want to leak either my exact location or my city to someone that shouldn't have access to it, I don't really mind that much (compared to exact) if someone knows the city.

A weather app barely needs any accuracy so it shouldn't have it. But a navigation app does so it gets it.

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 2 points 7 months ago

yeah if you use those kinds of things but the point is that carrier knowing your general location for no good reason is to much.