Comment by aeturnum

I suppose they don't "ask you" in the same way that gmail never presents the user with a dialog explaining that gmail needs to store their emails in order to provide their email service. Instead they explain how the location service works and you can decide if you want to enable or disable it.

I'll agree that militaries would prefer their soldiers to not to dumb things - but I don't agree that it's 'obviously' best if people needed permission to enable GPS! If that's the case depends a lot on which soldier is enabling the GPS and their relation to me. In general I would say that government control of people recording and distributing their observations is associated with the most authoritarian governments and by claiming we should get government permission you appear to be aligning yourself with an authoritarian approach to data controls.