Ups go. What do you know

[What'dyabringmetoday???]

This has everything to do with the fact the Union deceminates the information they want to rile all of the employees up with. UPS almost surely wants an information platform to level that playing field. Just a thought.

Do they disseminate information also? Lol?

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

Information can ALSO be decimated if handled badly enough.

 

[isonend]

Not all 350K at once.
Just the one they want to track who called in sick.
Why is location listed as a permission?
Perhaps not active now, but the permission is granted for future updates?

Remember who we are dealing with.
Do you trust them?

I think location is listed as a permission because the people who designed the app just copied and pasted the text from some generic description. The app itself does not have the location services, and when you install it on your phone it does not ask for location permission.

It's not a matter of trust for me. I think most things can be explained by sloppiness and stupidity and don't need paranoid conspiracy theories to make sense. The simplest answer is usually the right one - someone just doesn't know what they're doing.

 

[35years]

Silly me.
I guess I am just paranoid thinking an app that asks for location permission would ever access your location. We all know large companies like UPS, Facebook or Google would never access our seemingly private information.

What was I thinking?

 

[isonend]

Silly me.
I guess I am just paranoid thinking an app that asks for location permission would ever access your location. We all know large companies like UPS, Facebook or Google would never access our seemingly private information.

What was I thinking?

Well I don't know about your particular phone, but on mine, when an app is using your location (like Google Maps) it puts an icon at the top of the screen. And there is a place in the settings where you can see every app that asks to use the location function and you can turn it on or off. And when you install an app it tells you whether it is asking to use your location. So you have at least three places to see whether an app on your phone is using your location, and exactly when.

And the UPS Go app does NOT ask for permission to use your location. It does NOT appear on your list of apps that use your location. When you use it the location icon does NOT appear on the screen.

Yeah it says it needs access to your location in the description. That is obviously a mistake by a careless IT person and not grounds for a conspiracy about personally tracking your location outside work. Facebook and Google are both apps that follow the procedure of telling you when they are using your location and you can go turn them off right now.

So yes, you are being silly and paranoid. You don't understand what is going on, so you are making up a conspiracy theory to make sense of it. But the simple answer is usually the right one.

By the way - there is one company that is tracking your location that does NOT tell you about it when it happens, and that is your cell service provider. If you are truly worried about being tracked, you need to throw your cell phone in the nearest river and go back to land lines. If you ever have a serious accident at UPS, you can expect that the insurance companies involved are going to be requesting your phone records from your cell provider and checking to see exactly where you were, how fast you were going, and whether you were on the phone or texting at the time. The silly company app, which doesn't know your location at all, is the least of your worries.

 

[Poop Head]

Well I don't know about your particular phone, but on mine, when an app is using your location (like Google Maps) it puts an icon at the top of the screen. And there is a place in the settings where you can see every app that asks to use the location function and you can turn it on or off. And when you install an app it tells you whether it is asking to use your location. So you have at least three places to see whether an app on your phone is using your location, and exactly when.

And the UPS Go app does NOT ask for permission to use your location. It does NOT appear on your list of apps that use your location. When you use it the location icon does NOT appear on the screen.

Yeah it says it needs access to your location in the description. That is obviously a mistake by a careless IT person and not grounds for a conspiracy about personally tracking your location outside work. Facebook and Google are both apps that follow the procedure of telling you when they are using your location and you can go turn them off right now.

So yes, you are being silly and paranoid. You don't understand what is going on, so you are making up a conspiracy theory to make sense of it. But the simple answer is usually the right one.

By the way - there is one company that is tracking your location that does NOT tell you about it when it happens, and that is your cell service provider. If you are truly worried about being tracked, you need to throw your cell phone in the nearest river and go back to land lines. If you ever have a serious accident at UPS, you can expect that the insurance companies involved are going to be requesting your phone records from your cell provider and checking to see exactly where you were, how fast you were going, and whether you were on the phone or texting at the time. The silly company app, which doesn't know your location at all, is the least of your worries.

Why are you so hell-bent on defending this "app"?
Your picture of a boxcar with graffiti on it can't fool me

 

[isonend]

Why are you so hell-bent on defending this "app"?
Your picture of a boxcar with graffiti on it can't fool me

Funny that when you tell people who love conspiracy theories that there is no conspiracy, they come up with more conspiracies.

I'm not defending it. It's a pretty lame attempt by a stodgy old company to try to be cool with millennials. That is all.

And the conspiracy theories are stupid. That is all.

Like I say - wrap a little tinfoil around your phone, maybe line the inside of your hat with it, too, and you'll be fine.

 

[Poop Head]

Like I say - wrap a little tinfoil around your phone, maybe line the inside of your hat with it, too, and you'll be fine.

Nice try bozo, tinfoil doesn't work. I have my hats, phone case, and diad holder/holster lined with brass mesh. I suggest you do the same, to your cubicle.

 

[Jkloc420]

Nice try, tinfoil doesn't work. I have my hats, phone case, and diad holder/holster lined with brass mesh. I suggest you do the same, to your cubicle.

get out of here

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

get out of here

 

[Jkloc420]

Nice try, tinfoil doesn't work. I have my hats, phone case, and diad holder/holster lined with brass mesh. I suggest you do the same, to your cubicle.

you are in the wrong part of the woods sir

 

[Poop Head]

you are in the wrong part of the woods sir

Their is a lot of bear poop hear.

 

[Jkloc420]

Their is a lot of bear poop hear.

i know but i dont remember

 

[Dr.Brownz]

· CAMERA/FLASHLIGHT AND VIBRATION CONTROLS: These controls are needed so you can take pictures or capture videos.
·??

Means they can listen to the audio captured in your videos too....

 

[Dr.Brownz]

Funny that when you tell people who love conspiracy theories that there is no conspiracy, they come up with more conspiracies.

I'm not defending it. It's a pretty lame attempt by a stodgy old company to try to be cool with millennials. That is all.

And the conspiracy theories are stupid. That is all.

Like I say - wrap a little tinfoil around your phone, maybe line the inside of your hat with it, too, and you'll be fine.

Yep sure and UPS doesn't know that their old manual transmission trucks don't follow OSHA's noise guidelines either.....right....

 

[specter208]

Maybe they want a lot of people to use it so they don't have an app that becomes a waste of money that nobody uses.

 

[Rack em]

Maybe they want a lot of people to use it so they don't have an app that becomes a waste of money that nobody uses.

Like orion?

 

[specter208]

Like orion?

Yeah, I guess so.