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Re:Telegram publishes users' locations online by taneq on Monday January 04, 2021 @11:56PM (#25642262)
Yeah, it seems pretty explicit that you're making your location public when you press this button. I'd say the 'bug' is in people not realising that pushing their location to a 'show users near me' function inherently reveals their location to some degree of accuracy.
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Re:Telegram publishes users' locations online by eznzt on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @05:17AM (#25644018)
This is the exact message: https://i.imgur.com/PDnMmQV.png -- Additionally, iOS allows you to make your location imprecise on purpose.

This is a non-issue, this guy "Ahmed" is just fishing for attention with an incendiary title.

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Re:Telegram publishes users' locations online by justcool393 on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @06:00AM (#25644228)
yeah, I would definitely say that that's fine. like, if it were some dark pattern or unknown or something then whatever, but it's pretty explicit
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