morrowind@lemmy.ml to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 8 months agoWhy people don't talk about Google Maps' privacy issueswww.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square119fedilinkarrow-up1266arrow-down118file-text
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minus-squareReversalHatchery@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·8 months agoNot necessarily. The data is out there. I don’t think they could make it a part of the core app for legal reasons, but OsmAnd has a plugin system. Basically anyone could make it other than OsmAnd devs. Distribution could happen over an F-droid repo.
minus-squaremichael_palmer@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 months agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5eL_al_m7Q
minus-squarePipedLinkBot@feddit.rocksBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoHere is an alternative Piped link(s): https://www.piped.video/watch?v=k5eL_al_m7Q Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube. I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
minus-squareKilgore Trout@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months ago the data is out there Where? GMaps sources this data from each of its users.
minus-squareReversalHatchery@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoThat’s where. But also I wouldn’t be surprised if there are also other sources.
minus-squarelemmyvore@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoAnd Google also trusts that data because it’s collected at OS level. If an open project tried to collect location data they could not trust it. There’s no way to prevent malicious users from sending bogus data.
Not necessarily. The data is out there. I don’t think they could make it a part of the core app for legal reasons, but OsmAnd has a plugin system. Basically anyone could make it other than OsmAnd devs. Distribution could happen over an F-droid repo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5eL_al_m7Q
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://www.piped.video/watch?v=k5eL_al_m7Q
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Where? GMaps sources this data from each of its users.
That’s where. But also I wouldn’t be surprised if there are also other sources.
And Google also trusts that data because it’s collected at OS level.
If an open project tried to collect location data they could not trust it. There’s no way to prevent malicious users from sending bogus data.