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Re:Google is facing a lawsuit for tracking people even when ... by kd5bjo on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @04:07PM (#23850957)
The issue is a utility app doing anything other than what the user explicitly requests. I use a maps app to look at maps; it has no business doing anything with my photos.

Other people may use it for other things— that’s fine, as long as it behaves itself on my device when I don’t use those features.

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Re:Google is facing a lawsuit for tracking people even when ... by shadowgovt on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @04:48PM (#23851535)
Well, one uses Google Maps to look at maps and to upload photos of places; those are two features that app has.
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Re:Google is facing a lawsuit for tracking people even when ... by kd5bjo on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @05:19PM (#23852006)
Right, but an app shouldn’t be spying on me to support a feature I don’t actively use. If they want to include it in the binary for other people to use, I don’t have a big problem with that as long as it stays off.

A corollary is that the app shouldn’t ask for a permission until the user has asked it to do something that will obviously require that permission.

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Re:Google is facing a lawsuit for tracking people even when ... by shadowgovt on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @05:59PM (#23852623)
In general, I agree. In this specific context, the suggestion feature appears to have been enabled as a result of the user uploading a photo. It's reasonable to assume if they uploaded one, they'll want to upload more in the future (and decrease the friction of doing that).
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Re:Google is facing a lawsuit for tracking people even when ... by kd5bjo on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @06:07PM (#23852758)
Oh; I had assumed that the original upload was from a computer, but they didn’t actually say that, did they?
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