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It Is Time to Ban the Sale of Precise Geolocation (www.lawfaremedia.org)

submitted 4 days ago by supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

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[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 49 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Banning sales of the information won't accomplish anything except increase the market value.

Banning the collection of such information is required.

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

There's a difference between using the actual precise location and collecting it.

[–] unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml -1 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 4 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It would absolutely have an affect. Health care providers are banned from sharing medical info and it is absolutely effective.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

effect*

[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I recognise the relationship of cause and effect. And that's "E-ffect" with an "E" as opposed to "A-ffect", as in affectation, something you carry around with you, Russman. Affectation of bravado, yes, I see what you're up to!

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Don’t know why, but this comment had awoken an old Black Ops 2 quote. Seems to work nicely here.