Re:Google collects cell tower info even if location services...
by j45 on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @12:00PM
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Non-privacy apologists who make such comments are from a newer internet generation and they have not yet experienced valid reasons why this type of behaviour is an issue.
There is very much a reality of smartphones existing for over a decade before this type of data collection was done. It is in no way required or critical. If it was beneficial, it still should be a setting that can be turned off.
This isn't applicable just to service companies like Google who value user information, even when purchasing from a product company such as Apple has laptops phoning home at an incredibly unreasonable rate compared to MacOS 1-2 versions prior.
It's like having to run a firewall on your own devices to protect yourself from the manufacturer. Can we imagine if our routers do this, or did?
There is very much a reality of smartphones existing for over a decade before this type of data collection was done. It is in no way required or critical. If it was beneficial, it still should be a setting that can be turned off.
This isn't applicable just to service companies like Google who value user information, even when purchasing from a product company such as Apple has laptops phoning home at an incredibly unreasonable rate compared to MacOS 1-2 versions prior.
It's like having to run a firewall on your own devices to protect yourself from the manufacturer. Can we imagine if our routers do this, or did?