Post #2966047
2024-05-22 15:01 UTC
@jschuh@infosec.exchange it could be they were only focused on the privacy of their users. The API is more private (than Google's) in that it leaves the fine location calculations to the client. But it's horrendous for the AP owners, if they ever move.
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@jschuh@infosec.exchange 2024-05-22 15:20
@parkern@infosec.exchange Yeah, I assume that's going to be the argument, but in practice I think that's kinda garbage (hence my "wrong-headed" comment above). The design still requires Apple to get a running history of coarse location data. Plus the devices are constantly pinging cell towers. And with some regularity they have to send back fine-grained data to Apple, just to refresh their global WPS database. So, in practice I can't imagine there's any real privacy benefit to the Apple customers, and the tradeoff is a huge privacy compromise for literally everyone else. It's just a very destructive form of privacy narcissism.