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Pentagon Puts DJI on Blacklist

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Re: Pentagon Puts DJI on Blacklist

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Sort of off-topic complaint, but I wish Apple didn't make the Precise Location permission status viewable by apps. There's no reason they need to know if I'm obfuscating my location from them, and many apps look for this setting and refuse to work with Precise Location disabled. For example the McDonald's app doesn't allow you to use coupons unless you enable the precise location permission.

Some of it comes down to whether the app should rely on that positional data... like for catching an uber or something. I do think that's exploiting the ecosystem and I have a feeling one well placed complaint with Apple would cause a stern message to McDonald's... does the app tell you it's because of your location accuracy?

It specifically says to turn on Precise Location

https://imgur.com/a/zrs0rQl

For reference, you can click any deal and get a 6 letter code to use in-store at the counter or on their touchscreen ordering booths. But you can't see the code unless you give them precise location.

Re: Pentagon Puts DJI on Blacklist

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> So around 2019 Android added it to the general location permission to use Bluetooth for anything other than audio transmission to/from a paired device if device pairing is handled by the OS, hidden from the app. Stores don't need your permission or even their own app to be installed on your phone in order to use bluetooth to track people as they move around their stores. If you have bluetooth enabled on your device…

I think the person you're responding to is misremembering the scandal. It was that Facebook, Google and similar (iirc it was mostly Facebook, Google were doing this with WiFi networks they had built an index of through Street View) would use Bluetooth on your phone to scan for nearby devices, and match them against known other devices and their location, thus deducing who you meet and where. They even have a patent f…

No. It was the Target app and it associated it to your Target Circle account.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/20/target-rolls-out-bluetooth...

Re: Pentagon Puts DJI on Blacklist

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For the majority of smartphone's existence no permission was necessary, probably because no one ever considered it. Then it was learned stores, for example Target, were using their mobile app to broadcast Bluetooth signals in order to track shoppers movement around the store. So around 2019 Android added it to the general location permission to use Bluetooth for anything other than audio transmission to/from a paired…

> So around 2019 Android added it to the general location permission to use Bluetooth for anything other than audio transmission to/from a paired device if device pairing is handled by the OS, hidden from the app. Stores don't need your permission or even their own app to be installed on your phone in order to use bluetooth to track people as they move around their stores. If you have bluetooth enabled on your device…

But if they want to match it to your Target Circle account they need you to be using the app. Also iOS uses BLE address randomization to make tracking a specific individual more difficult. Having your app blast out a known ID bypasses this

https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/20/target-rolls-out-bluetooth...

Re: Pentagon Puts DJI on Blacklist

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You have it backwards: the U.S. government is explicitly prohibited constitutionally from infringing the human right to bear arms.

That's why everyone can buy sell and own nukes!

Seems tactical nukes that can be fired by a single individual may constitutionally be held. Firing them appears extremely illegal, owning them is likely subject to physical monitoring, and motorized missile launchers and such are regulated by state regulations under the Tenth.

cf. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31862258#31869185

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