I'm not sure I can answer this, but it might help anyone who could if you know an example of an application that does the nature of tracking you are concerned with?
I should mention, that demanding tracking may well be okay in GDPR, in necessary contexts: for instance a banking service may have to do some natures of fraud prevention using tracking, perhaps of recent internet facing IP addresses used and may have a regulatory need to do something like this.
Also bear in mind that GDPR isn't the only law here. If you want to access data stored on a user's terminal (mobile device, laptop, etc), then you likely need consent too under ePrivacy: for example "Article 5" https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX...
> I'm not sure I can answer this, but it might help anyone who could if you know an example of an application that does the nature of tracking you are concerned with?
Using any map application (especially google maps) does not actually need to store my location for posterity to give me useful service, and I did not opt-in but android still does; Perhaps it's because I haven't been back inside Europe in the last month or so (and when I do, I'll get a "please opt in" prompt).
I should mention, that demanding tracking may well be okay in GDPR, in necessary contexts: for instance a banking service may have to do some natures of fraud prevention using tracking, perhaps of recent internet facing IP addresses used and may have a regulatory need to do something like this.
Also bear in mind that GDPR isn't the only law here. If you want to access data stored on a user's terminal (mobile device, laptop, etc), then you likely need consent too under ePrivacy: for example "Article 5" https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX...