XPost: comp.mobile.android, sci.geo.satellite-nav
From: Newyana2@invalid.nospam
"Wally J" wrote
| Does anyone here have more technical information as to how Google Maps
| obtains your location using cell tower data as described in this
reference?
| *How Maps finds your current location*
To carry a cellphone turned on is to wear a tracking
collar. You ccan make some adjustments, but if you
dopn't want to be tracked then power off your cellphone
when you're not using it. To want to keep your location
private while using these services is missing the point.
Many services won't work at all without location. Uber,
restaurant recommendations, real-time dating apps...
Many free app developers get paid by selling your
private data.
Do you know about Google geofencing? It's a paying
business for them. Some of the Jan 6 rioters were
caught that way:
https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/19/google-geofence-warrants/
Some years ago there was also an article about iPhones
storing a log of location data. The reporter used it to create
a map of where he had been for several weeks.
If you want privacy then use maps on a computer and
preferably avoid Google maps. I actually wrote my own
software that gets Bing maps if I need a map. But of
course, most cellphone addicts these days don't know how to
read maps, so they use Waze. Once again, an app that's
of no use without knowing your location.
Long story short, you've missed the concept of living
on a cellphone. Most people who live that way see these
intrusions as services. They don't care about privacy.
It's like you put an ad in the paper to advertise your
yard sale and now you're complaining that people are
coming to your house.
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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