I think the issue is, or at least was, that Google assumes that if you are willing to share your location via BLE, which could be guessed by sniffing for BLE MAC addresses, that you're at the same time willing to grant high resolution GPS access. A battery monitor does not need to know your location. I'd like to think my research / blog posts put pressure on them to start being honest with their customers. The Apple app store also now discloses location data is being sent If they still use the Alibaba AMap SDK - then that's a third party. It also still says data not sent to any third party. I just checked the BM2 app (subject of the blog post series) and they have updated with the similar detail, updated on the 25th of June 2023, although they say the data is encrypted - will need to verify if this is the case with the latest release. It appears the application is by the same developer :
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