If a service "by its very nature" does shady things, maybe that service should not be offered in the first place?
Critcizing users afterwards that they "can't act shocked" for having these things done to them is only playing a blame game.
Critcizing users afterwards that they "can't act shocked" for having these things done to them is only playing a blame game.
It's not even remotely shady for a service to inherently involve knowing where you are. That's something that is true of every brick and mortar store, and indeed every cab driver. Yet the government doesn't demand that those businesses provide real-time feeds of information about the movements of their customers, and if the government were to do so and they were to object on privacy grounds, we wouldn't take it to mean that their entire business model is inherently immoral and all shops should cease to exist.
But nobody actually getting the blame since it would be weird if anyone was actually mad at this. Does anyone seriously believe that using Find My iPhone doesn't allow Apple access to your phone's location for the purposes of showing you where it is?
That's the point. If you buy a GPS tracker, for example, by definition it will track your GPS location.
Would you expect a GPS tracker to not track your GPS location? Because that is what you are saying.