XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.mobile.android, misc.phone.mobile.iphone   
   From: marianjones@helpfulpeople.com   
      
   Jolly Roger wrote:   
   >> It's worse than I thought. I checked the Apple database for my own BSSID of   
   >> an access point that has had "_nomap" on it for years, and it was in the   
   >> Apple database!. The real GPS location. It was horrid. I almost fainted.   
   >   
   > Bullshit. Weak lie.   
      
   It's classic for the Apple trolls to claim everything they can't understand   
   is a "weak lie" as Jolly Roger just did, but the fact remains that my BSSID   
   is in Apple's database (and the SSID is hidden & has "_nomap" appended).   
      
   This is bad.   
   Very bad.   
      
   It could very well be so bad that lawyers will need to be involved.   
   Since I take my privacy seriously - and yet - Apple doesn't appear to.   
      
   If I need to, I will contact a class-action suit lawyer, but I'm nowhere at   
   that stage just yet, as I need to find out why my BSSID is in Apple's WPS.   
      
   I looked up what Apple's policy is and it appears that Apple "claims" to   
   scrub BSSIDs whose SSID contains the "_nomap" suffix, so my BSSID should   
   never be in Apple's WPS database under any perceivable circumstances.   
      
    *Why Your Wi-Fi Router Doubles as an Apple AirTag*   
       
    "In late March 2024, Apple quietly updated its website to note   
     that anyone can opt out of having the location of their wireless   
     access points collected and shared by Apple by appending '_nomap'   
     to the end of the Wi-Fi access point's name (SSID).   
       
      
   Given I had "trusted" Apple at its word, I almost fainted when I found that   
   my BSSID was in Apple's WPS even as the SSID is hidden & it has "_nomap".   
   So I'm going to check all the other databases to try to get more datapoints   
   as this seems to be an egregious lack of privacy even for Apple to abuse.   
      
   Back to Jolly Roger's comments that everything he can't understand must be   
   a lie, the strange thing about Apple trolls is they claim everything that   
   puts Apple in a bad light is a lie, when the reality is that it's the   
   truth.   
      
   We can prove the truth if anyone else wants to give us their BSSID to test.   
   Or, they can test it themselves, as noted in a prior post, simply by by   
   searching Apple's WPS database for their BSSID whose SSID is set to _nomap.   
       
      
   Moving forward, I am emphatically reporting that my SSID is set to hidden   
   and the SSID has _nomap appended, and yet it's clearly in the Apple WPS.   
      
   That's bad.   
   Really bad.   
      
   I will need to check further (to see if it's in the Google database, for   
   example, which requires me to register for an API key from Google), but at   
   the moment, I'm horribly appalled my hidden/_nomap AP is in Apple's WPS.   
   --   
   Working together we can all help each other improve our privacy online.   
      
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