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by Budabellly 2092 days ago
Reminds me of when Strava routes were disclosing info about personnel & physical structures of military bases: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/28/fitness-tracki...

I haven't used it, but if the company is so set on opt-out versus opt-in, maybe it'd be preferable to default to 1st or 2nd degree connections only for location sharing. For the fly-By functionality where it's supposed to be public, it seems a little reckless to disclose name, picture, and location by default. I can also definitely think of other popular apps that do this.

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They disabled or hobbled several useful features in response to soldiers sharing their location with a location sharing app. Maybe they were idealistic in assuming people who used the app wanted its functionality, but reckless does not describe the situation accurately.