- cross-posted to:
- pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub
- cross-posted to:
- pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub
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Just ban the sale of user data
Didn’t even know it was for sale.
has become a threat to public safety. An FBI director is expected to be available and focused on his job—especially when the nation is at war with a state sponsor of terrorism
I’m surprised to hear them admit that Israel sponsors terrorism.
Maybe the US can look in a mirror.
mmm, yes, very wise.
Always has been
Banning sales of the information won’t accomplish anything except increase the market value.
Banning the collection of such information is required.
It would absolutely have an affect. Health care providers are banned from sharing medical info and it is absolutely effective.
effect*
There are genuine uses for it since the imprecise version is (deliberately) so vague, but the privacy laws around it should have long since been significantly tightened. There should be a middle ground with user control over the level of vagueness.
There are very few cases I can think of for location data more precise than a postal code. Active navigation is the only one that occurs immediately.
Most apps that collect location data are doing so because they can, not because they really need it for anything. Most of the time, verifying that a user is within the country that they’re supposed to be should be enough for geolocation security.
There’s a difference between using the actual precise location and collecting it.
There isn’t. In order to use, you must have access somehow. And that access allows collection.
You can’t use Google Maps without letting it know whete you are.
There can be some waysto forbid collection, but they’re all stopgaps.
Giving location access is like opening floodgates. Some data will end up somewhere you don’t want.
No, it’s long past the time. I guess now is the next best time though.
How about now? It’s been a minute.
Actually, you might be right, it was a better time. Perhaps we should just wait it out and see if a better time appears? 😄
Or now
