Can someone explain to me why the phone doesn’t have a GPS killswitch? That seems like a huge privacy concern. Thanks.
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A GPS unit passively listens to signals from satellites to find the position of the unit. It cannot transmit anything to anybody.
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I may add that @todd-weaver discusses killswitches and firmware/binary-blob issues in his interview with people from UBports. It is discussed in the second part of the interview.
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Thank you both for your input
Isn’t the same true for camera and microphone? Yet they will get a killswitch
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Yep. I have changed my position on this now that you mention it.
We should have a “sensors” kill switch. It will turn off GPS, compass, accelerometer, gyros, etc.
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I think the potential problem of not having a killswitch for even the “passive” sensors is that they could be hijacked to collect data offline and then to send the collected data after a connection is re-established. Or is this not possible?
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#KillSwitchForSensors