The latest edition of the Seriously Risky Business cybersecurity newsletter, now on Lawfare.
  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
    6 hours

    Banning sales of the information won’t accomplish anything except increase the market value.

    Banning the collection of such information is required.

    • SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.worldEnglish
      6 hours

      There are genuine uses for it since the imprecise version is (deliberately) so vague, but the privacy laws around it should have long since been significantly tightened. There should be a middle ground with user control over the level of vagueness.

      • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
        10 minutes

        There are very few cases I can think of for location data more precise than a postal code. Active navigation is the only one that occurs immediately.

        Most apps that collect location data are doing so because they can, not because they really need it for anything. Most of the time, verifying that a user is within the country that they’re supposed to be should be enough for geolocation security.

      • Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        4 hours

        There’s a difference between using the actual precise location and collecting it.