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Lost location controls
VENTURA 13.5 BROUGHT with it a shock in the disappearance of control over which apps have access to location data, in Privacy & Security > Location Services. Where there had been a list of apps such as Maps, Find My and Weather, only System Services remained.
Most important utilities and controls have fallbacks: if Disk Utility can’t do what you want, the command tool diskutil offers that and more. Two prominent exceptions to this are Location Services, and all the other privacy settings, for which there’s no Terminal workaround. This is intentional in order to avoid any risk of malicious subversion.