I either need it on and on for that app - and it phones home without permission.
Or I have to completely turn it off.
You can turn that off.
> probably hacked by multiple foreign services
Source?
Many of us hold on to the quaint notion that computers we own should be under our control.
If so, that sounds like a terrible idea to me. Sandboxing off applications from the hardware is a key aspect of security here. My opinion: the system should collect the location data (IF the global location services switch is on) and then parse it out following the user's granular selections for what apps they want to receive it. And that seems to be exactly the case.
Obviously the OS will know my location if Location services are on, it’s a case of what it does or does not do with that data.