From: kludge@remove-this.panix.com   
      
   Bill Horne   wrote:   
   >On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 09:11:41AM -0400, Fred Goldstein wrote:   
   >   
   >> Not necessarily. While the phone company does know where you are, at   
   >> least down to the which-cell level. the phone itself has GPS (required   
   >> for E911 location purposes, though you sometimes wonder if the people   
   >> behind such rules had other interests in mind), and apps can be given   
   >> permission to access it. Then the app itself can communicate with its   
   >> servers. The carrier has nothing to do with it. You can, however, go   
   >> into the app permissions settings in Android and see which apps have   
   >> Location permission, and when (all the time, or only when using it, for   
   >> instance).   
   >   
   >Sorry, I don't buy it. The Olympians heights of the phone company PR   
   >flacks probably resound with oh-so-comforting denials, but I think   
   >they're lying through their teeth.   
      
   I'm not saying that the phone company isn't collecting your position data.   
   But read what Fred is saying.... by default any app running on your phone   
   has access to your position data.  It's not JUST the phone company.  It's   
   any company whose apps you are using.  A whole raft of companies have access   
   to your data and they ALL are likely to be collecting it.   
   --scott   
      
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