Also DJI app that requires GPS lock in and internet connection to operate drones owned by hundreds of thousands of US citizens. Hell, even something off brand from the back streets of Guangdong, something like a Yawei dashcam app wants 1) Location access 2) Contacts and 3) Photos app access. So it can “geo tag your friends in a car’s dashcam stream and bluetooth it to your photos library”.
The cat is out of the box. It must be resolved through a cat exterminator at the highest levels of Gov, forcing Apple and Google to delist this stuff.
Even the best and highly educated citizenry is not immune to this; let alone the rest of USA and the west. Micro actions from individuals wouldn’t be sufficient. No harm meant to cats or any of our furry friends.
Anything that needs to scan wifi (such as to talk to a drone) shows up as location access, because the list of visible APs and their relative signal strengths is the same thing as your location.
I think there's another option which is the devices that run the apps are user agents. Bunk geo data, bunk contacts, the app shouldn't be the wiser. This will take legislation to enact which moves at a snails pace. Hopefully SV will enable granular controls to pollute this data.
The cat is out of the box. It must be resolved through a cat exterminator at the highest levels of Gov, forcing Apple and Google to delist this stuff.
Even the best and highly educated citizenry is not immune to this; let alone the rest of USA and the west. Micro actions from individuals wouldn’t be sufficient. No harm meant to cats or any of our furry friends.