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It can request with a JS call. It can't passively collect it without you approving first. The article is written like calling that JS function will turn on loca
by esprehn 6mo ago
It can request with a JS call. It can't passively collect it without you approving first. The article is written like calling that JS function will turn on location tracking without consent.
- mattdeboard 6mo agoHe explicitly says he can't determine it, but that the location tracking as configured will turn on once the user grants consent. All true statements. How would you have written it differently
- logifail 6mo ago"If the user chooses to opt-in and grants location-tracking permission, the app is then, and only then, able to track the user's location?"
- ceejayoz 6mo agoBut that's not true; it could easily fallback to other forms of geolocation like using the current IP.
- buzzerbetrayed 6mo agoGood lord. So could literally any app on the planet
- rerdavies 6mo agoThat would allow you to see the local network IP (not actually sure you even get that, tbh). To get more detailed information about IP configuration, you need Location permission. Been there, done that. Most Android network information calls provide degraded information if you have not been granted Location permissions.
- quesera 6mo agoIf an app can make an HTTP request, the app can know the user's public IP address and the geolocation derived from that. This data has well-known limitations, but I think it is the fallback people are talking about here.
- mattdeboard 6mo agoYou would be lying if you wrote that because you do not know if that is true.