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It was enabled for me by default, but the iOS location icon is always displayed on the Springboard when it's being used. Also, Foursquare will constantly send you notifications saying "It looks like you're near Foobar, would you like to check in?". They make it very, very obvious that they're tracking your location. It was a quick matter of going into preferences and looking to see what applications used location ser…
Is this not the entire point of Foursquare?
I wish there was an OS option that does the equivalent of "Only permit location based service calls when app is open and active" I want the option of enabling Yelp only when I use Yelp etc.
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Seems like you're commenting based only on the title. Here's the first sentence of the article: "It might sound weird to accuse Foursquare of collecting location data since that is the whole point of the service, but Foursquare is overstepping its bounds by constantly keeping track of their users' every move (and more) — even if they never open the app."
Still not surprised. This is a textbook example of why Apple originally refused to allow apps to run in the background- so now that Apple finally caved and apps can background, it was just a matter of time before exactly this sort of thing came up.
Plus iOS 5 introduced background support with location that did keep the GPS active and did drain the battery. Foursquare enabled it as a feature called "Radar" that was short lived due to the drain.
FWIW, in the IOS version of the app, the offending check box appears to be disabled by default. (I certainly didn't disable it, so I can only assume that's the state from install).
It was enabled for me by default, but the iOS location icon is always displayed on the Springboard when it's being used. Also, Foursquare will constantly send you notifications saying "It looks like you're near Foobar, would you like to check in?". They make it very, very obvious that they're tracking your location. It was a quick matter of going into preferences and looking to see what applications used location ser…
Have you seen noticeable battery life improvements?
Older models, or not plugging it in every night, might show something different.
Is this not the entire point of Foursquare?
Not all users. I primarily use Foursquare for tracking where I've been, not for discovery. If I try to remember that great place I ate at last time I was in Boston I can search my history. Invasive continuous tracking adds no value for me.
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Seems like you're commenting based only on the title. Here's the first sentence of the article: "It might sound weird to accuse Foursquare of collecting location data since that is the whole point of the service, but Foursquare is overstepping its bounds by constantly keeping track of their users' every move (and more) — even if they never open the app."
Hard to blame Foursquare which you need to install while Google itself is doing it on Android phones to track when Android phones enter stores. http://digiday.com/platforms/google-tracking/
"This feature turns on when you opt in to Google now. "
Opt in, not opt out.
I wish there was an OS option that does the equivalent of "Only permit location based service calls when app is open and active" I want the option of enabling Yelp only when I use Yelp etc.
I beleive that in iOS 7 you could disable Background App Refresh for apps like Foursquare and Yelp.
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Seems like you're commenting based only on the title. Here's the first sentence of the article: "It might sound weird to accuse Foursquare of collecting location data since that is the whole point of the service, but Foursquare is overstepping its bounds by constantly keeping track of their users' every move (and more) — even if they never open the app."
Hard to blame Foursquare which you need to install while Google itself is doing it on Android phones to track when Android phones enter stores. http://digiday.com/platforms/google-tracking/
[0] Storeowners install the device, and customers have to opt-out: http://nomi.com/privacy/