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All they need to do is see what wifi connections I can reach on my phone. In any urban area you can easily reach 50+ wifi connections standing in one spot. If g
by lovich 8y ago
All they need to do is see what wifi connections I can reach on my phone. In any urban area you can easily reach 50+ wifi connections standing in one spot. If google knows X wifi connection corresponds to Y range of a physical location because of someone else left their location and wifi on, then they can tell that if I can reach 4 or 5 different wifi connections at once then I must be at a certain address.
It's like browser fingerprinting. It doesn't take very many bits of entropy before you are identifiable
- Buge 8y agoYeah, I know about using wifi for location. But I think turning the android location setting off disables that (in addition to disabling gps and bluetooth location). These pages indicate that: https://support.google.com/android/answer/3467281 https://support.google.com/android/answer/3467281 https://support.google.com/android/answer/6179507 https://support.google.com/android/answer/6179507