Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps
On 2020-04-12, <tomas@tuxteam.de> <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
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> On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 11:48:40AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
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>> Just to clarify, the privacy concern here is the software accessing the
>> internet without explicit user consent, regardless of what it is using
>> this information for (internal only or providing it to other software).
In the end this turns out to be an outstanding bug:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=924516
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...geoclue is communicating with location.services.mozilla.com when it should
not.
Work around is to disable and mask geoclue.service.
I note that I do not have a geoclue.service to disable or mask, opened the Maps
app from my LXDE desktop (with org.gnome.system.location enabled set to false)
and Maps found me anyway (within a small stone's throw).
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