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Meaning every device is sharing its location? I'm confused, please clarify.
by sova 6y ago
Meaning every device is sharing its location? I'm confused, please clarify.
- avianlyric 6y agoNot quite. But if you know the MAC address of nearby access points, there are multiple location services that can turn that into a lat/Lon location (e.g. Skyhook [1]). Indeed iOS/Android does this to estimate phone location without GPS. Of course this requires someone to have already uploaded the estimated location of the access point. But loads of apps and OSs do that all the time. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyhook_Wireless https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyhook_Wireless