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The frustrating part is that you cannot protect yourself from that outside of turning your cellphone off or putting it in airplane mode.
by m-p-3 8y ago
The frustrating part is that you cannot protect yourself from that outside of turning your cellphone off or putting it in airplane mode.
- general8bitso 8y agoAirplane mode does not disable GPS. It could be queuing positional and temporal data, and awaiting a connection to later send.
- lawnchair_larry 8y agoThat isn’t how this data is obtained though. It’s all known on the carrier side. It does not rely on your phone submitting it.
- roywiggins 8y agoThe data they're selling is coming from signal triangulation, it's not coming from software implanted on your phone.