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Carrier geolocation is there whether you like it or not and at this point I think legislation is the only solution to making location logs illegal to keep for g
by novok 5y ago
Carrier geolocation is there whether you like it or not and at this point I think legislation is the only solution to making location logs illegal to keep for governments and companies. It's not really being created by your smartphone but more like observed by the carriers cell phone towers so they can do handoffs and a side effect of how the network layer works.
Also stuff like iBeacon is pretty much impossible to avoid, it still works even when bluetooth is completely turned off. I got an iBeacon based alert when I walked into an apple store with bluetooth turned off for example, and there is no setting to turn off iBeacon tracking.
Google is worse in other ways, it's incredibly infuriating.