On Dropbox Professional, Essentials, Business, Business Plus, and some customers on Dropbox Standard and Advanced.
In countries with the preferred language set to English. Excluding Canada, the UK (United Kingdom), and countries within the EEA (European Economic Area).
Would recommend going through that article in general, this is yet another great example how people start to go nuts without understanding something.
My only reason besides stuff being free is that I want my music library offline. There are some services like Bandcamp that offer it, but it would not cover a meaningful percentage of all my library. Not gonna buy and rip CDs myself as well
Your question was why GPS permission is needed, you should now know why.
I am using MS Authenticator and Aegis. Using MS authenticator only for work accounts that have been setup for number matching feature, it is pretty nice to simply enter 2 digits in app than entering 6 digits in client itself any time you need to approve MFA.
Everything else that supports standard TOTP whether work related or personal is on Aegis - it is a much better TOTP app.
It’s a security / compliance policy. There is a very high chance your company has not even enabled it, have not seen anyone using it.
As I see it, you would and could use it only if you force MS Authenticator notification as the only MFA method and it is important in which country MFA prompt originates. Usually it is IP based block / whitelist which checks IP from which login originates which seems like a much more useful info, then you can also allow any MFA method.
Sounds more like a bad design than purposefully left backdoors. Very few devices are rooted and usually you cannot get root without fully wiping your device in process. As for cloud upload, that indeed is convenient for most regular users. I prefer encrypted offline backup like Aegis does, but you need to think about regular folk if they would loose or wipe their device.
Q: I got a prompt asking me to grant permission for the app to access my location. Why am I seeing this?
A: You will see a prompt from the Authenticator app asking for access to your location if your IT admin has created a policy requiring you to share your GPS location before you are allowed to access specific resources. You’ll need to share your location once every hour to ensure you are still within a country where you are allowed to access the resource.
Leaving in a boom mic or crew in reflections is already embarrassing, leaving something like this in would be know as the biggest goof in film history.
But you could already do all that without NFTs. And if we are talking about transferring items across games which was a popular talking point in the past, I still cannot imagine how it would work and why would any dev implement this. Imagine Fortnite gun later used in Call of Duty.
There are countless other examples where some new service gets a lot of funding and eventually dies. Most probably really was spent out without being pocketed, fancy office was rented, state of the art tech used, huge sallaries and ridiculous benefits etc.
I cannot imagine NFTs or crypto in general being widely used. Tech is inefficient and not solving anything better than what we already have been using for years. If someone wants to sell digital art there already are ways like DeviantArt, Patreon etc.