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And that's fine, but none of this addresses the assertion that cellphones can't work without GPS tracking.
by rhizome 9y ago
And that's fine, but none of this addresses the assertion that cellphones can't work without GPS tracking.
- geofft 9y agoNo such assertion was made.
- khedoros1 9y agoGPS tracking is a complete red herring; you're focusing on the wrong thing. No one ever claimed that GPS was necessary. Here's the statement that was made: "Your cell phone cannot function without actually knowing where you are (to some approximation)". That "approximation" is: "Which cell towers can hear your phone transmit, and how strong is the signal?" Your cell phone would work just as well as a phone if you disabled the GPS chip, but your location can be estimated by triangulating from signal strength. It's not nearly as precise, or as accurate, as a GPS-provided location would be, of course.
- rhizome 9y agoNo one ever claimed that GPS was necessary The context of this thread is Android and Apple's tracking of location history and I'm just trying to stay on topic. Not without downvotes, natch. This isn't Reddit, I'm not an idiot, and I know how cellphones work. Try to be more charitable.
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- michaelcampbell 9y ago> And that's fine, but none of this addresses the assertion that cellphones can't work without GPS tracking Perhaps because that was never asserted. > Your cell phone cannot function without actually knowing where you are (to some approximation) at all times.
- someguydave 9y agoNot GPS tracking. Simply tracking the fact that you transmitted a signal to a particular cell tower (the one nearby in radio terms) is sufficient to narrow your location considerably.