What does that have to do with what I said?

A creep using them to record in a bathroom would be illegal, light bypassed or not.

I’m not sure if you’ve realised, but creeps have been finding ways to film women and girls illegally for as long as there have been ways to film women and girls. That doesn’t make everyone taking photos and videos in public a creep like you pretend it does.

It doesn’t matter if you trust the developer or not, that’s the whole point of the system-level controls for these things.

That’s not what is being discussed though (streaming video to fb/google/government/etc).

That’s where it would start crossing the line into surveillance, which has strict laws around it.

There shouldn’t really be. Phones can easily record people without their knowledge even as you walk right past them.

It’s just a poorly, or non-researched ad for a VPN basically.

If you give something location access, read what it uses it for. Pretty straight forward.

People will, and are. Business licenses still get included usage amounts btw.

For simply stating the obvious?

In most of the world the law is pretty straight forward here - no expectation of privacy in public. Knowing this isn’t “creepy”. Not knowing this is hilarious.

TOS aren’t just legal by default. If Valve are indeed saying that they will delist Ubisoft games if they sell their own games elsewhere for cheaper than they do on Steam, that will absolutely get them in trouble with the law. That’s classic anti-competitive behaviour. It’s abusing their market position.

I understand the “problem”, but I understand that if you’re out in public you’re giving up some privacy. This isn’t a hard concept to understand. It’s literally in the name - public. Public is the opposite of private.

Laws exist around where you can and can’t film, and on the streets you can film. What you do with the footage also has laws around it, but a creep walking around taking photos of fully clothed women in public so he can jerk off to it isn’t breaking any laws.

But you said it won’t pass muster in the US? I’m saying it does. Most of Europe also allows recording in public. Which countries don’t?

It’s also completely wrong about the apps on iOS which have system level controls for approx and precise location.

On iOS Edge, and all other apps, have a precise location setting alongside the location settings, so is this only talking about Android?

You can choose to use approximate or precise location right in the settings:

If you have never selected it doesn’t even get your approximate location.

Valve takes 30% of all sales. What’s 30% of $60?

That’s why Ubisoft could sell their games for 30% cheaper on their own platform - they make the same amount of money as selling for $60 on Steam.

This has nothing to do with power bills?

Many of them are already looking to do this. Microsoft for example are looking at building their own nuclear reactor. X are looking at orbital data centres.

Oppose what, that you can be filmed or photographed without explicit consent when you’re in public?

So if I go to the Eiffel Tower, I have to go and ask the hundreds of other people there if they consent to me taking their photo simply because they’re in my photo? Or if I see a criminal breaking into a house, I have to ask them if I can take their photo/video if I want to report them and hand over my photos/video to the police?

What are you even trying to say?

No one has an expectation of privacy when they’re out in public. It’s right there in the name - public. The opposite of private.

Have a look at Anthropic and all their products to see that the actual model isn’t their main proprietary IP.

AI will absolutely be cheaper than it is now in the future, because you’ll actually be able to run it locally - look at the recently announced Nvidia powered Surface Ultra as an example of what’s coming.

Companies are trying to get their whole AI pipeline more efficient and “smaller” to reduce costs, because their costs to build and run data centres are astronomical. Where it will likely go is a subscription service to access their models that you run locally. Passes most of the cost on to consumers, and is recurring revenue which they all dream of.

Said like someone who doesn’t understand that AI is a tool that can greatly improve your work life and productivity.

If I was you I’d do some research into it, especially around GitHub copilot, and get learning - or you’re going to be left behind. If you’re a dev then you are signing your careers death warrant by having that attitude.