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Wasn't there a story recently about android phones still being tracked and tracking wifi hotspots even with wifi turned off? I believe location services still w
by ctrl-j 10y ago
Wasn't there a story recently about android phones still being tracked and tracking wifi hotspots even with wifi turned off? I believe location services still works pretty well even with GPS and wifi off.
I would imagine if you walk into a home with google's AI doodads all over the place, you're gonna be picked up.
- majewsky 10y agoMakes you wonder how reliable airplane mode is.
- falcolas 10y agoAirplane mode doesn't turn off the radios, IIRC; it just stops transmissions. Rumor is that even when your phone has been turned off, it can be turned back on remotely.
- falcolas 10y agoYes, there was recently a question of how Android knew someone's location with such high resolution, even when wifi and GPS were both turned off. The answer was a passive probing of wifi identifiers and using those against the Google SID to location database even when wifi was turned off. There was even a note about this feature in the privacy policy, IIRC.