Re:Google is facing a lawsuit for tracking people even when ...
by shadowgovt on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @04:48PM
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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
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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.
Re:Google is facing a lawsuit for tracking people even when ...
by shadowgovt on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @05:59PM
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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).