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Re:Airbnb wants to GPS track you also when not using the app by jrockway on Monday February 14, 2022 @05:14PM (#30339131)
Wouldn't you just put that in your privacy policy so when some bug makes it in (perhaps in upstream code or the OS itself) that causes location tracking to continue happening when the app is closed, you're not open to liability?

It is difficult to discern "paranoid" from "evil" when reading legal documents. Unfortunately being paranoid makes them look evil. Maybe they are, maybe they aren't, but there is more than one way of looking at this.

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Re:Airbnb wants to GPS track you also when not using the app by malikNF on Monday February 14, 2022 @05:49PM (#30339509)
>Wouldn't you just put that in your privacy policy so when some bug makes it in

Well by that reasoning, all legal agreements should just say, "we are not responsible for anything, we take what we want don't, you can't sue us".

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Re:Airbnb wants to GPS track you also when not using the app by snotrockets on Monday February 14, 2022 @06:21PM (#30339937)
That's basically what most EULA read, only in many more words
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Re:Airbnb wants to GPS track you also when not using the app by CPLX on Monday February 14, 2022 @06:22PM (#30339950)
I mean, I’ve seen a lot of legal agreements like that.
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Re:Airbnb wants to GPS track you also when not using the app by babypuncher on Monday February 14, 2022 @07:04PM (#30340499)
It seems difficult for something like that to accidentally happen, seeing as background location tracking requires explicit permission requested through APIs provided by the OS.
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Re:Airbnb wants to GPS track you also when not using the app by porlune on Monday February 14, 2022 @07:29PM (#30340761)
I wonder if the fear is that you might end up having less than ethical (rogue?) employees that might think they're helping the company by using some form of workaround to track users. I'm not sure if that's overly paranoid or just the right amount of paranoia, but I can imagine the fear.
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Re:Airbnb wants to GPS track you also when not using the app by CaptainZapp on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @01:09AM (#30343347)
Unethical management does that trick just fine. You don't need rogue employees for that.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/6/10726004/uber-god-mode-set...

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