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Ask HN: Flightradar24 on iOS knew my location without having access to it

1 pointsby f055almost 5 years ago
Here’s what happened: I was driving nearby an airport with my iPhone connected to CarPlay. I received a push notification from Flightradar24 welcoming me to that airport. But Flightradar24 wasn’t opened, wasn’t in the background, wasn’t active, doesn’t have background app privileges (I’ve unset it manually months ago) and had location privileges set to “only while using”. Flightradar24 doesn’t have Bluetooth access but has Camera access. But again, it wasn’t opened nor in recently active apps. WTH?

3 comments

bitcrazyalmost 5 years ago
It's entirely possible that a different app (that sells your location data) notified FlightRadar.
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f055almost 5 years ago
I’m on latest iOS version. Could they be using the contact tracing api in some malicious way?
sunnylemonalmost 5 years ago
Wifi hotspot SSID?
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