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Re:Germany flips to Apple-Google approach on smartphone cont... by takeda on Monday April 27, 2020 @01:42AM (#22993182)
Too bad that (at least on Android an app that needs to use Bluetooth also needs GPS permission. So there's still will be a concern about privacy. I don't understand why these two permissions needs to be together.
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Re:Germany flips to Apple-Google approach on smartphone cont... by tsbinz on Monday April 27, 2020 @01:50AM (#22993221)
If you don't trust the app to not localize/track you, you also don't want to give it BT permissions. BT on its own is enough to localize/track you pretty well in cities, which was one of the reasons people didn't like the idea of a centralized database of BT contacts ...
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Re:Germany flips to Apple-Google approach on smartphone cont... by grey-area on Monday April 27, 2020 @01:51AM (#22993227)
Probably because bluetooth alone could give away your location with beacons.
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Re:Germany flips to Apple-Google approach on smartphone cont... by andybak on Monday April 27, 2020 @04:42AM (#22994056)
Could you not have a separate permission based on bluetooth profile? Not all bluetooth devices are location privacy threats to the same degree.
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