Comment by random6547545
8 years ago
It's android for the hardware manufacturers and OS crapware getting location data.
For iOS, assume every app using your location is selling the data. That means every app using a map or location smoothing SDK (GPS jumps around, there are services to smooth it out), since the map SDK providers (and there's not many) are selling your data even if the app itself isn't.
Google, Apple, Microsoft etc are pretty careful for good reason. Anyone below that is probably selling it.
Every app that has access to nearby WiFi SSIDs (or even just the one you’re connected to) can also turn this data into location data.
In fact I don’t think that is even a gated permission on iOS.
This isn't a user-gated permission but an Apple-gated one. Apps can't retrieve the nearby SSID list unless they have the "Hotspot Helper" entitlement from Apple. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/networkextension/n...
Good to know, but that’s only marginally better, as a malicious app developer only needs to come up with a legitimate reason for the entitlement.