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Re:Apple is now a privacy-as-a-service company by scarface74 on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @08:24AM (#20103638)
When an app asks for access to your location, you are given three choices - never, when using, or always. How technical do you have to be to know that when you allow an app access to your location - it has access to your location?
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Re:Apple is now a privacy-as-a-service company by mirimir on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @10:23AM (#20104648)
All apps always that honest about it?
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Re:Apple is now a privacy-as-a-service company by scarface74 on Thursday June 06, 2019 @10:28PM (#20121147)
Apps don’t have to be “honest”. iOS enforces it.

But to be clear by saying “the app asks you”, it would be more accurate that the app asks the operating system for the location, the operating system asks you and the OS enforces it.

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