I was thinking this as well
Comment on Was browsing through the Immich cursed knowledge library. This is quite interesting.
Michal@programming.dev 2 months agoI’m also worried that this is why gallery apps would require GPS location just for viewing photos (and their Metadata). Once gallery app has the permission, it can track your location in real time. It’s like this should be a separate permission rather than bundled together.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 months ago
GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
I agree completely.
I understand the motivation here — apps that lack location permission shouldn’t be able to get backdoor access to your location via your camera roll. That makes sense, because you know damn well every
spywaresocial media company would be doing that if they could.But the reverse is also true: apps that legitimately need to read photos and access all their metadata shouldn’t need to be granted full location access.