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Enable fake location reporting

Open KenMacD opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

Hello, is there any support in the apps for manually configuring and reporting a custom/fake location? In balancing usefulness with privacy I'd like family members to be able to set a fixed location that would override the phone's actual location.

KenMacD avatar Apr 07 '24 14:04 KenMacD

Our apps don't have that capability, and I cannot imagine a reason to do so in the app. At best you can set the app to 'quiet mode' so that it no longer publishes its location.

What you could do is create/publish a location to the appropriate topic; there's nothing which checks whether such a location is legitimate.

jpmens avatar Apr 07 '24 14:04 jpmens

Thank you. My thinking is that the app not publishing also gives away information so some way to 'freeze' the location would be better from a privacy perspective.

KenMacD avatar Apr 18 '24 20:04 KenMacD