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Wouldn't matter. Grindr requires GPS. On a 'properly secure' smartphone, you enable location access to use Grindr... or you don't use Grindr. The user remain
by techrat 5y ago
Wouldn't matter.
Grindr requires GPS.
On a 'properly secure' smartphone, you enable location access to use Grindr... or you don't use Grindr.
The user remains the insecure link in the chain here regardless of how 'properly secure' the smartphone is.
- BeefWellington 5y agoThere are alternatives. Grid-snapping GPS locations are the way other dating apps happen to do this kind of thing (tracking only to the nearest 1KM, for example, or in dense cities maybe 500M). Two permissions like "GPS (Nearby)" and "GPS (Exact)" could do this at the OS level rather than relying on applications to do the right thing. Navigation apps likely need very fine resolution but dating apps, shopping apps, browsers, etc. could snap to a predefined intersection point on a grid. The OS could even allow the decision to be in the hands of the device owner - a simple dialogue when prompted for GPS permission to pick one of Exact, Nearby, Deny could handle it.