XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.internet.wireless   
   From: alice.jones-donotspam@ptd.net   
      
   Arno Welzel wrote in message 56AB8F0B.6000309@arnowelzel.de:   
      
   > There is no "special equipment" needed to see SSIDs. When I go to the   
   > backyard of the apartment building where I live, I can easily pick up   
   > around 10 different SSIDs with my smartphone.   
      
   I didn't want to get into the Google cars sniffing of SSIDs.   
   I just wanted to keep the question about what my phone and my neighbor's   
   phone does while we're sleeping.   
      
   Does the Apple iOS equipment also hand Google our home SSIDs while we sleep?   
      
   > Yep. And as long as you don't live in a very high floor or have some   
   > kind of magnetic shielding in your house everybody around the place you   
   > live will pick up the SSID as well - and so the smartphones moving along   
   > the place you live.   
      
   To be clear, I'm just worried about my home SSID and what happens   
   on my phone (which I can control) and what happens on my neighbor's phones   
   (which I can't control).   
      
   > The option I described is in Android 5.1. Maybe it is in the advanced   
   > location service settings or in the "Google Settings" app which can be   
   > found on some devices.   
      
   I'm on Android 4.3 but still, I can't control the phones of my neighbors.   
   So what matters mostly is what the default allows.   
      
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