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All the better to track you with, my dear.
by cronix 4y ago
All the better to track you with, my dear.
- FBISurveillance 4y agoMy team and I are watching you as we speak. Spoiler alert: Your tinfoil hat doesn't help.
- mandmandam 4y agoWeird, I thought we stopped doing tinfoil hat jokes post-Snowden.
- FBISurveillance 4y agoAh, I was just joking around my username!
- aaaaaaaaaaab 4y agoGPS is passive.
- DesiLurker 4y agobut the android running it is active, whats your point?
- makeitdouble 4y agoI don’t share parent’s pessimism, but I think that comment was probably referring to tracking inside apps and having better tracking accuracy. Basically Pokemon Go would know you went to the burger shop and not the Hawaian pancake shop 50m before.
- snovv_crash 4y agoDual band (30cm accuracy) would mean that they know that you weren't walking on the sidewalk during pokemon go and could report you for jwalking.
- KaiserPro 4y agopokemon go[1] has maps based on visual maps, so are much more accurate and gives you where the phone is pointing, not just lat lon height. My old company had 20cm accuracy, we can assume that its reasonably close to that now. even with shitty crowd sourced photos. [1] well niantic: https://nianticlabs.com/news/lightshipsummit/?hl=en https://nianticlabs.com/news/lightshipsummit/?hl=en
- ronsor 4y agoTracking apps and phones in general don't rely purely on GPS/GNSS. WiFi and Bluetooth-based positioning systems have been used in tandem with satellite positioning for years now. This won't change much, except for having better positioning in the middle of nowhere.
- lern_too_spel 4y agoOn iOS, the only way to read GPS location also sends GPS location to Apple, so GP has a point. This has been supported on Android for years without such tracking.
- mikotodomo 4y agoI'm glad that this will massively increase safety of the general public. No more cut out signals confusing police responders. What are you afraid of? It can only be used by authorized apps.