Where Angels Fear
1 min readMar 26, 2020

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Turning off access in the permissions settings in even Android 9 (not sure about 10 yet) doesn’t guarantee that the app won’t still make use of it; there have been a number of cases where (especially older) apps ignored user preferences — and Google themselves have been caught out collecting location data even after Location Services was disabled entirely, not just for a specific app (and, furthermore, making it impossible to do anything about).

People can (and should be encouraged to) do more to protect their privacy than that

https://medium.com/@WhereAngelsFearToTread/if-youre-an-iphone-user-you-re-kinda-on-your-own-i-m-afraid-apple-lock-those-things-down-so-306b4b2ffed9

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Where Angels Fear
Where Angels Fear

Written by Where Angels Fear

There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live and too rare to die.

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