Thanks to this news, applications no longer need your location to search for nearby Bluetooth devices.
On the first day of Google plus I/O 2021, the American giant presented to the world the new privacy policies that will come with Android 12.
In addition to features such as the data protection panel or an improved password manager, these include a number of smaller changes Aplicaciones only use the permissions they need and don’t have access to permissions they don’t need.
One of those changes is Android 12 makes it harder to track Bluetooth since the applications will no longer ask you for permission “Location”.
If you’re concerned about your privacy, you’ll love this new Android 12 feature
As we perro read in 9to5Google plus The latest version of Android brings a new permission called device nearby so that wearable applications such as smart watches or headphones that use Bluetooth to locate them You no longer ask us for the location.
Nearby device includes two new permissions named Bluetooth scan and Bluetooth connectionwho once needed an application that would allow finding nearby devices using this wireless technology and all that without having to activate the “Location” permission. which activates the GPS with consistent tracking of our current location.
These are the permissions requested by the “Nearby device” which does not include location
Other minor changes are also included in Android 12 and help us protect our private data Automatically reset unused aplicación permissions and aplicación relationships.
This last feature, which we already had available with third-party aplicaciones like Greenify, not only revokes the permissions we previously granted to an application, but also Stop function, restore memory and it prevents them from doing tasks in the background, which will ocasione us Stop getting notifications from this aplicación.