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Comment on Ask HN: Flightradar24 on iOS knew my location without having access to itparent

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f055OP

Turns out it's Apple itself that "sells" my data. Most likely because of I have Siri enabled with location access to "frequent places" or "important locations"... I'm quite disappointed. I thought this data wasn't shared with third parties, but as usual I didn't read the TOS/Privacy word by word...

- https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/1109817945864179714... - https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/1208949494315986944

Wow, did not expect that from Apple. Disappointing indeed!

f055OP

Digging deeper it seems these notifications are a one-way street, so Flightradar24 app may not even know it was pushed. It seems like a local on-device notification. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/...

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