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Re:Tim Hortons app violated laws in collection of ‘vast amou... by stanmancan on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @08:42PM (#31589981)
It's always weird though on iOS; many times I've selected "Only while using the app" and then a day or two later I get a pop up that "{app} has used your location data 53 times in the last 24 hours" which never makes sense considering I never opened the app.
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Re:Tim Hortons app violated laws in collection of ‘vast amou... by ccouzens on Thursday June 02, 2022 @01:40AM (#31591728)
Is the prompt about the app requesting your permission using the API designed for that?

And is the counter about the app making background data requests? Any network request can be used to infer permissions from your IP address?

That IP addresses can be mapped to physical locations is unfortunate but usually the precision is bad (eg enough to know what town you're in, but not where in the town)

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