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Re:AltStore – An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iO... by simfree on Sunday June 20, 2021 @03:46PM (#27573287)
Apple also tracks your GPS trace just like Google Maps does, the difference is they don't seem to share it with you.

Apple Maps employees use these "anonymized" GPS traces to correct roads, show business hours, find new points of interest that are unmapped, etc

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Re:AltStore – An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iO... by applefangirl on Sunday June 20, 2021 @06:56PM (#27574592)
They don’t share it with you because they can’t. It’s anonymized.
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Re:AltStore – An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iO... by simfree on Monday June 21, 2021 @07:28PM (#27585911)
The GPS trace is not practically anonymized, comparison with public and semipublic datasets would deanonymize a large portion of the GPS traces.
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