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ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day (www.404media.co)

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[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To be fair, a weather app does need to know my location to give relevant information.

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[–] jve@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

No it doesn’t.

It just needs to know what cities you care about.

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[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

Absolutely. Just don't do anything shady with that information. I think that's all anyone's asking.

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