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They're not tracking locations because they're not using GPS. They are checking the environment for stuff that might have known locations, which is different.
by mannyv 3y ago
They're not tracking locations because they're not using GPS.
They are checking the environment for stuff that might have known locations, which is different. You can do the same with bluetooth/BLE.
- panarky 3y agoThis is a distinction without a difference. The user must be in control of whether their location is disclosed to an app.
- extraduder_ire 3y ago> You can do the same with bluetooth/BLE. Not anymore you can't. Sometime before 2020 apple, and also google, started treating BLE scanning as an operation needing location permissions. (I had to deal with this transition while submitting an iOS app that connected to a BLE device which actually had a GPS module in it) As of now, I still have to turn on location on my android phone to connect to some BLE devices.
- bdavbdav 3y agoSame difference as far as a user is concerned. And BT/BLE explicitly asks for permission.
- x1sec 3y agoSSID / BSSID is often enough to pinpoint the location. Recently someone debated this with me, so I asked him what his wifi AP name was, then proceeded to provide their home address. How? By searching it in https://wigle.net https://wigle.net. That ended the debate quite swiftly.