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Why people don't talk about Google Maps' privacy issues (www.youtube.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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Title is editorialized because the original is, frankly, clickbait garbage

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[–] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Not necessarily. The data is out there. I don't think they could make it a part of the core app for legal reasons, but OsmAnd has a plugin system. Basically anyone could make it other than OsmAnd devs. Distribution could happen over an F-droid repo.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    the data is out there

    Where? GMaps sources this data from each of its users.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    And Google also trusts that data because it's collected at OS level.

    If an open project tried to collect location data they could not trust it. There's no way to prevent malicious users from sending bogus data.

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