react-native-background-geolocation
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transistorsoft
Bring back Encryption
Your Environment
- Plugin version: 4.10.1
- Platform: both
- OS version: n/a
- Device manufacturer / model: n/a
- React Native version (
react-native -v): n/a - Plugin config
BackgroundGeolocation.ready({
+ encrypt: true
});
Expected Behavior
I propose to bring back the encryption feature, removed in #1246. As far as I understand, it was removed because the RNCryptor package was flagged as a virus. Maybe we can use another library, e.g. a pure JS one?
AFAIU, the previous implementation encrypted the data before it entered the local on-device SQLite database. I personally think this is overkill, I think it solves a threat model that's limited to maybe people whose personal locations are really sensitive data with risk of the device being accessed. But for the huge majority of use cases, I believe encryption before sending to the HTTP server is enough, so that the location data is stored encrypted on the server.
Actual Behavior
No encryption.
Steps to Reproduce
n/a
Context
Since precise location data (as provided by this library) is considered personally identifiable information, I think adding encryption is going in the right direction.
Debug logs
n/a
