Comment by crazygringo
11 hours ago
If you don't give the app any permissions, it doesn't spy on you either.
It doesn't have any more information than the info you give it to buy the tickets in the first place.
11 hours ago
If you don't give the app any permissions, it doesn't spy on you either.
It doesn't have any more information than the info you give it to buy the tickets in the first place.
> It doesn't have any more information than the info you give it to buy the tickets in the first place.
Many apps ask for permission to use your GPS position and other sensor data, even though they don't need it. Most non-technical people don't understand what that means and will just allow it.
I have absolutely never in 15+ years of having an iPhone had an app ask for GPS or sensor data when it clearly wasn’t necessary for functionality like a maps app or Uber.
> Many apps ask for permission to use your GPS position and other sensor data, even though they don't need it.
What on earth are you talking about? I've installed hundreds of apps in my life and literally never seen that.
It does when the ticket app demands Location access "to protect your security"
You can set location to only while you're using the app. And when you open it to scan the ticket, they already know where you are. You're at the entrance to the stadium where they scan your tickets.
And that's when you find out the app considers this usage pattern as a signal of fraud, so then you can't get into the event and have no recourse. Their app, their rules, your loss.
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>If you don't give the app any permissions, it doesn't spy on you either.
We're talking about an 81 year-old who has never had a smartphone before and you're starting the sentence with "if"? And that's just that app, not the phone itself or anything else that someone brand new to, and ignorant towards, this ecosystem is going to encounter and not know what to do with.
> If you don't give the app any permissions, it doesn't spy on you either.
What about the other apps? What about the phone itself?
The guy already has a phone. Flip phones still track your location.
If you don't want other apps, don't install other apps.
>The guy already has a phone. Flip phones still track your location.
Locations from flip phones have to be triangulated. Smartphones track more precise locations and a lot more than just location data.
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