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Puts device manufacturers in a tough spot. They can fix the problem because sometimes the carriers/police/whoever need the A-GPS data
by nerdbaggy 8y ago
Puts device manufacturers in a tough spot. They can fix the problem because sometimes the carriers/police/whoever need the A-GPS data
- walterbell 8y agoApple could add an option to disable A-GPS, leaving the device relying only on satellite GPS. Carriers would still have cell tower location.
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- kevin_nisbet 8y agoI'm sure apple could, but this might be an easier said than done item. A-GPS certainly shouldn't be disabled at all times, as it is a mandate as part of E911, which has the express purpose of closing the gap on emergency services being able to find a caller in an emergency. The difficulty is, I don't think A-GPS is OS controlled, I think it largely lives in the baseband, which Apple may have a much more limited control over, optionally enabling and disabling features that for all intensive purposes are built into the hardware. Ideally, a user should get a notification when not in a 911 call, but without spending a good deal of time hunting in the standards, it's possible this isn't exposed either. I think in the CDMA2000 day's when I looked at this, the OS call for GPS positions couldn't even say don't use assisted GPS. The baseband if it had a network connection, would just contact the location server, and use that when locating the device to give back to the OS. That's old technology though, I'm not intimately familiar with the current standards.
- wl 8y agoThird parties do need access to this information. There should be prominent alerts on the device when tracking is occurring, including information on where that information is going.