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Your router MAC address is tracked by Google Location services. They do this with their wardriving vehicles and from Android phones.
by partycoder 9y ago
Your router MAC address is tracked by Google Location services. They do this with their wardriving vehicles and from Android phones.
- chatmasta 9y agoYes and even if you changed your Mac every day, your neighbors probably wouldn’t. So google can still see the three routers around you, look up the gps those routers have been seen concurrently with, and know where you are.
- paulfurley 9y agoNot sure if I'm missing the point here... if I were using Google Location services, wouldn't that mean I was giving Google my location directly? Why would they need to use my MAC address?
- chatmasta 9y agoTheoretically you don't need to be using Google location services. You just need a phone with a google app that has permissions to discover nearby wifi hotspots.