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Technical notes
Privacy design
The software was built with the idea that your location should only be handled in the client part. Then, it should never be sent to the server part or any third party without your knowledge. The app should also provide as much features as possible without even knowing your location (in case you disabled geolocation on your device).
If geolocation is turned off, it falls back to asking you to manually enter a location through a text field. Of course, without geolocation tracking, some features no longer makes sense, but you can still browse the reports and manually add reports at specific known locations.
If geolocation is turned on, your geolocation data is only handled locally, on your device. This means that your precise location is never sent to the server. When fetching reports nearby, all the valid reports from the server are downloaded and the filtering is done client-side, to avoid sharing your precise geolocation with the server.
Note: The map tiles (the map background) is downloaded from third party servers and due to the very nature of the images, it could leak hints about your geolocation. This might be something addressed in the future by letting you batch download a given area in advance.