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Who cares about GPS? Cell towers track you and you can't shut that off. As I understand it Americans have no consumer rights so your mobile carrier will happil
by phobosdeimos 8y ago
Who cares about GPS? Cell towers track you and you can't shut that off.
As I understand it Americans have no consumer rights so your mobile carrier will happily sell you out.
- swebs 8y agoYou can also be tracked via local wi-fi access points. Google has built a database mapping access points to GPS coordinates. All they need is access to wi-fi information and they can find your location even if you have GPS and 4G disabled. There is really little you can do nowadays to protect your privacy.
- aaqureshi 8y agoBingo !
- hammock 8y agoCan't you remove your battery?
- acct1771 8y agoEvery baseband (cellular chip) is mandated closed sourced, and likely backdoored. Open source basebands NOW.
- gmiller123456 8y agoThe main point here is that they're doing the tracking with a typical user mode application without access to anything that a user would know is giving away their location. Tracking location with other sensors requires more permissions.