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Re:LocationSmart Leaked Location Data for All Major U.S. Car... by jjeaff on Thursday May 17, 2018 @06:43PM (#17096767)
There is no phone pinging going on. The carriers most likely keep a database of most recent location of their customers based on customer phones pinging towers.

At most, hitting location smart over and over would probably just hit the carrier databases over and over.

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Re:LocationSmart Leaked Location Data for All Major U.S. Car... by jsjohnst on Thursday May 17, 2018 @08:07PM (#17097440)
> The carriers most likely keep a database of most recent location of their customers based on customer phones pinging towers.

You can strike “most likely” from your statement. Carriers definitively do this.

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