There is a concern about delivering sensitive information to third
parties. The GPS is a passive device (that is, it's not sending out
data, just receiving it), so even privacy-aware users can use it with no
concerns. But cell+wifi means that the device is sending quite a lot of
location information to the location servers (Nokia HERE, and we might
implement more in the future), so it can be understood that some users
might want to disable that. GeoIP is about sharing your IP address with
the location servers; it's sensibly less information than handing out
the cell and wifi APs around you, so some privacy aware users could be
fine with that.
Since we are talking about it, an option that I'd really love to see is
the possibility of having the location detection enabled with just
wifi+cell, without the GPS running (to save battery). So, I'd really
like if the GPS chip could be individually turned on and off, separately
from all other methods.
One possible UI:
- Location detection [ON/OFF]
- GPS [ON/OFF]
- Wifi+cell [ON/OFF]
- GeoIP {ON/OFF] (but if the above is ON, this control could be set
automatically to ON and made not interactive)
** Changed in: ubuntu-ux
Status: Incomplete => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1522455
Title:
Add settings to control geoip usage for location
Status in Canonical System Image:
Confirmed
Status in Ubuntu UX:
Confirmed
Status in indicator-location package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in ubuntu-system-settings package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in unity8 package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
When location detection is enabled geoip is used by default. Unlike
the other methods there is no separate control provided to enable and
disable its use. This should be added to the Security and Privacy >
Location panel and to the wizard.
This somewhat complicates the options.
Use GPS only
Use GPS with Geoip (default)
Use GPS, Wifi, etc (opt in)
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