Years and years ago, they discovered that Google was still tracking your location, even with location disabled. That’s because Google created a surveillance network using your friends’ phones. Your friends’ phones would find local WiFi connections, and report them back to Google, along with associated GPS data. Then Google used this to make a sort of WiFi map. So now Google can tell where you are without ever getting any actual “location data”.
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IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Don’t give location access. Really not that hard.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
slumberlust@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
In case you are not just trolling, you need to do way more to stay anonymous in the modern area.