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Though I understand the reason, I find this ironic given how invasive play store apps can be. My cars official app requires full location access all the time, otherwise it pops up asking for it every time you open it. Meanwhile some FOSS app that can be code reviewed and sideloaded is more difficult to give needed acess.
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Not to defend the shitty app, but it’s probably Google’s fault. Location access is needed to just query WiFi or do a hotspot. Probably features the app needs. They should’ve make that more granular.
5 points
They need it for 2 things I believe.
- They show a map where vehivle last parked compared to you.
- They could use it for their proprietary phone as key feature that doesn’t work and is unreliable compared to using UWB.
- Gonna add this one since its totally the reason, sell your data. They store the car data, why not get the phones location data so you can get them all the time!
1 point
Sure they sell the data…my point was just that they would probably need the permission even if they didn’t want your actual location.
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