Comment on Give permission. Don't give permission. They know where you are anyway
misk@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Does this happen to user in the EU? It’s highly illegal to gather data without consent here obviously. Even processing other data to derive location means processing data for purpose that’s different from one that was consented to (if at all). There are big companies implicated here so it’d be easy to fine them into submission in jurisdictions that allow it.
plenipotentprotogod@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The sample data shared in the article includes
“c”: “ES”, // Country code,ES is usually used for Spain, so it looks like these tests were run from within the EU.
misk@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Ah, there’s also this in json:
"uc": "1", // User consent for tracking = True; OK what ?!My guess is that developers are pretending to got user consent to get more money from the ads.
Telorand@reddthat.com 1 day ago
Easier to ask forgiveness than permission. Most companies are so big, getting caught is relatively cheap with how low the fines are compared to their annual profits.
It’s just a line item on their expense sheets, anymore, and most people don’t have the money to get the justice they deserve in court.
misk@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
This we can expect but there’s also a trend to idolise solo developers or small firms but everyone can be shitty and everyone should be accountable. In this case a smaller developer steals user data do defrauds Unity most likely because they think they’re too small to be worth investigating.