Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add GeoClue desktop service.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andy Wingo <address@hidden> skribis:

> However it seems to me that you don't need a location service to get
> your location -- any app has basically the right privileges to grovel
> through things on its own, either through geo-IP things or via seeing
> what wireless hotspots are around, etc.  This is what Chromium does for
> example.  The model isn't "an app will never know my location unless
> geoclue authorizes it".  It's more like "users sometimes want their apps
> to know the user's location, and geoclue can do a good efficient job at
> it instead of making each app roll its own implementation".

Yeah, good point.  WiFi data is definitely available wide-open to
programs anyway.  Not so much we can do, it seems.

Thanks for your feedback,
Ludo’.