Re: Makes me laugh...
"I use Android on BlackBerry. No problem turning off individual rights in each application. I'd assumed this was standard in Android, but obviously not."
It is standard, and has been since Android 5 or 6. It's not a lot of help with background tracking though, since most of the apps involved have a good reason to want your location some of the time and won't work if you don't allow it - Uber need to know where you are in order to pick you up, the problem is that once you've allowed them that permission they can use it any time they like. Even making it more obvious when an app is doing this, as Apple are planning, doesn't really help, since there's still nothing you can do about it other than refusing to use the app in question, and it's clear most people aren't actually willing to do that.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
