Swype makes almost 4000 location requests every day
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Swype makes almost 4000 location requests every day
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Re: Swype makes almost 4000 location requests every day
#2We, as customers, are being raped by the corporations.. No dinner, no movies, no candles, no Vaseline.
The sad thing is, many of the people here are part of the problem.
Re: Swype makes almost 4000 location requests every day
#3We, as customers, are being raped by the corporations.. No dinner, no movies, no candles, no Vaseline. The sad thing is, many of the people here are part of the problem.
A software bug is not on the same level as being violently sexually assaulted. You are part of a much larger problem.
Re: Swype makes almost 4000 location requests every day
#4At least Android provides the user the tools to audit this per app. Apple should follow suit.
Re: Swype makes almost 4000 location requests every day
#5Does this mean we can't even trust the input options on a phone now? After blocking this, does it also mean I'm now going to have to change every password I've ever typed on my device? FFS.
Re: Swype makes almost 4000 location requests every day
#6We, as customers, are being raped by the corporations.. No dinner, no movies, no candles, no Vaseline. The sad thing is, many of the people here are part of the problem.
Your metaphor is pretty harsh but I agree with your sentiment.
All these mobile apps need more granular security features, which Google almost released, and the EFF was dying for, but then Google quickly retracted it. Very unfortunate.
A keyboard does not need to know your location. Nor do half of the damn apps in my phone. It should be easy to make your phone lie to the app and tell it where ever you want. Same with my contacts.
Re: Swype makes almost 4000 location requests every day
#7Every time I see something like this come up, it really makes me wonder how many other apps out there are doing the same thing and getting away with it.
Unless you root your phone and use something like the mentioned android firewall, or go whole-hog and install Cyanogenmod, what chance do you have to guard against this?
I assume ios users are likely in the same boat, but with even less chance of recourse.
Re: Swype makes almost 4000 location requests every day
#8We, as customers, are being raped by the corporations.. No dinner, no movies, no candles, no Vaseline. The sad thing is, many of the people here are part of the problem.
A software bug is not on the same level as being violently sexually assaulted. You are part of a much larger problem.
Software bug? Do you really believe that this is software bug? It logs location many thousands of times every day and nobody noticed that?
Re: Swype makes almost 4000 location requests every day
#9Every time I see something like this come up, it really makes me wonder how many other apps out there are doing the same thing and getting away with it. Unless you root your phone and use something like the mentioned android firewall, or go whole-hog and install Cyanogenmod, what chance do you have to guard against this? I assume ios users are likely in the same boat, but with even less chance of recourse.
Never attribute to malice what could also be attributed to incompetence. All we know is that it makes the location requests, it could just as well be attributed to sloppy programming.
Re: Swype makes almost 4000 location requests every day
#10Every time I see something like this come up, it really makes me wonder how many other apps out there are doing the same thing and getting away with it. Unless you root your phone and use something like the mentioned android firewall, or go whole-hog and install Cyanogenmod, what chance do you have to guard against this? I assume ios users are likely in the same boat, but with even less chance of recourse.
Never attribute to malice what could also be attributed to incompetence. All we know is that it makes the location requests, it could just as well be attributed to sloppy programming.
Dunno. How can you inadvertently request location info when you're implementing a keyboard for Android?