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You are connecting your phone to a wifi spot or honeycomb network around your places, they all have IPs, so IP is enough to tell where u live, not very accurate
by terrycody 7y ago
You are connecting your phone to a wifi spot or honeycomb network around your places, they all have IPs, so IP is enough to tell where u live, not very accurate but enough to figure out many things.
- jolmg 7y agoIt's more accurate to use the MAC address of the Wifi spot. Google was triangulating the locations of Wifi spots and recording their MAC address while taking pictures for Google Maps Street View. https://outflux.net/blog/archives/2010/01/24/google-is-wardriving/ https://outflux.net/blog/archives/2010/01/24/google-is-wardr... https://www.darkreading.com/risk-management/google-wardriving-how-engineering-trumped-privacy/d/d-id/1104126 https://www.darkreading.com/risk-management/google-wardrivin... https://www.darkreading.com/risk-management/google-street-view-pursued-wardriving-by-design/d/d-id/1104110 https://www.darkreading.com/risk-management/google-street-vi... http://transition.fcc.gov/DA-12-592A1.pdf http://transition.fcc.gov/DA-12-592A1.pdf From the FCC report: > Between May 2007 and May 2010, as part of its Street View project, Google Inc. (Google or Company) collected data from Wi-Fi networks throughout the United States and around the world. The purpose of Google's Wi-Fi data collection initiative was to capture information about Wi-Fi networks that the Company could use to help establish users' locations and provide location-based services.
- awinter-py 7y agoat this point I assume they're collecting more hotspot information from smartphones running G maps vs from cars