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Seems it can be disabled on iOS but not on Android. At least according to the German version of their terms.
by jwildeboer 7y ago
Seems it can be disabled on iOS but not on Android. At least according to the German version of their terms.
- holstvoogd 7y agoDoesn't surprise me, Android itself is more invasive than rectoscopy I've recently discovered. The amount of tracking google tries to do is absolutely mental and neigh impossible to circumvent. It seems fitting that they allow this.
- 1023bytes 7y ago"To access the hardware identifiers of nearby external devices via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi scans, your app must now have the ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION or ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION permission" https://developer.android.com/about/versions/marshmallow/android-6.0-changes.html#behavior-hardware-id https://developer.android.com/about/versions/marshmallow/and...
- secabeen 7y agoYep, there exist databases of the geolocation of nearly every Wifi AP in the world. If you have the MAC address of nearby APs, you can lookup where you are trivially. https://www.skyhook.com/ https://www.skyhook.com/