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BramBonne / privacypolice

Source code for Wi-Fi Privacy Police, available on Google Play at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=be.uhasselt.privacypolice
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What's the purpose of GPS permission? #24

Closed eridal closed 8 years ago

eridal commented 8 years ago

Honest question, as this is preventing me to upgrade to latest.

BramBonne commented 8 years ago

Hi Martin,

Quoting the Google Play listing:

PrivacyPolice now requires the location permission to run. This is because Android 6.0 does not allow access to the list of Wi-Fi networks without this location. PrivacyPolice will never collect your information. Please consult the source code at https://github.com/BramBonne/privacypolice if you have any doubts.

In short, Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) considers access to the currently available Wi-Fi networks as a location permission, since it can be used to pretty accurately determine your location.

Hope this answers your question. If you still have any doubts, feel free to reopen this issue.

eridal commented 8 years ago

Oh I didn't know that.

I've reading the source code and couldn't find anything related to that permission. Now it makes sense.

Thanks for clarifying

eridal commented 8 years ago

As a side note, I've installed from fdroid.

It could be handy to include that note in there as well.

BramBonne commented 8 years ago

Thanks for the tip! I'll update it in the README file on Github, hoping that F-Droid will pull my updates from there :-)

eridal commented 8 years ago

I've learn that fdroid has a repo with all the app's metadata. Here's the privacypolice one:

https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/blob/master/metadata/be.uhasselt.privacypolice.txt

It's still not clear how that gets updated, but hope it helps we to find out