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Why people don't talk about Google Maps' privacy issues (www.youtube.com)

submitted 6 months ago by morrowind@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Title is editorialized because the original is, frankly, clickbait garbage

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[–] michael_palmer@lemmy.sdf.org -3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Traffic data? ~~If a grandmother had a penis, she would be a grandfather~~ To implement this function, Osmand should gather location data from every user.

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Not necessarily. The data is out there. I don't think they could make it a part of the core app for legal reasons, but OsmAnd has a plugin system. Basically anyone could make it other than OsmAnd devs. Distribution could happen over an F-droid repo.

[–] michael_palmer@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5eL_al_m7Q

[–] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks 1 points 6 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://www.piped.video/watch?v=k5eL_al_m7Q

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[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

the data is out there

Where? GMaps sources this data from each of its users.

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 1 points 6 months ago

That's where. But also I wouldn't be surprised if there are also other sources.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 points 6 months ago

And Google also trusts that data because it's collected at OS level.

If an open project tried to collect location data they could not trust it. There's no way to prevent malicious users from sending bogus data.