Situatie
Android has terrible defaults for settings that directly concern your digital privacy. They’re all built on an “opt-out” design, so you’re expected to turn them off yourself if you don’t want to give away all your personal information.
Solutie
Your phone can pinpoint your exact location within a meter or two. This feature is called “precise location.” Without precise location enabled, apps and websites can only get an approximate location within a couple of miles.
I had assumed that the approximate location was the default on Android phones. I recently had a little bit of a rude awakening regarding that. A mobile wallet app would not let me proceed with the setup until I enabled the precise location feature (I had turned it off for an unrelated experiment).
Since then, I have made it a point to keep precise location disabled on all my Android devices. Sometimes apps will explicitly ask you for that permission, giving you the option to choose between precise and approximate. However, apps will often just give you three location permission options: “Allow all the time,” “Allow while using the app” and “Deny” If you allow it, it can access your precise location, unless you explicitly go into settings and turn it off.


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