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Re:Why Is Location Data No Longer Private? by walterbell on Saturday May 26, 2018 @05:36PM (#17164370)
It's using the cell tower location. If you don't connect to the cell tower (Airplane mode), there's no location.
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Re:Why Is Location Data No Longer Private? by mehrdadn on Saturday May 26, 2018 @05:38PM (#17164391)
>> From the first thread on this issue[0], it appears that the GPS data transfer exchange is happening underneath the OS level.

> It's using the cell tower location. If you don't connect to the cell tower (Airplane mode), there's no location.

So you're saying that person quite explicitly saying this is GPS data is explicitly wrong about this? (i.e. you have more information than that person, and it is explicitly to the contrary?)

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Re:Why Is Location Data No Longer Private? by wlesieutre on Saturday May 26, 2018 @06:08PM (#17164506)
FWIW the Kerbs article makes no mention of GPS, only nearby cell towers

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/05/tracking-firm-locationsm...

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Re:Why Is Location Data No Longer Private? by mehrdadn on Saturday May 26, 2018 @10:52PM (#17165224)
That person was clearly claiming to have 'insider' information. I'm not sure why one would expect Krebs to have been privy to the same information.
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Re:Why Is Location Data No Longer Private? by mentat on Saturday May 26, 2018 @09:56PM (#17165101)
It does AGPS, pointed to where exactly I was in my house.
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Re:Why Is Location Data No Longer Private? by chiph on Saturday May 26, 2018 @07:39PM (#17164765)
Or it's being reported as part of the E911 data for emergency services.
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Re:Why Is Location Data No Longer Private? by confounded on Sunday May 27, 2018 @02:06AM (#17165691)
This seems like the most likely explanation to me.
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