Re:FBI subpoenaed Apple for data of Sci-Hub founder
by sneak on Saturday May 08, 2021 @10:43AM
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Location Services being on systemwide sends your location 24/7 to Apple. It's not just GPS reception, it also uploads the list of wifi MAC addresses it can see, with signal strengths, to improve its location fix.
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Re:FBI subpoenaed Apple for data of Sci-Hub founder
by nichch on Saturday May 08, 2021 @03:14PM
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Is this confirmed or are you just saying it because it's technically possible?
Edit: Yes, this is confirmed in Apple's privacy policy for location services.
"If Location Services is on, your iPhone will periodically send the geo-tagged locations of nearby Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers (where supported by a device) in an anonymous and encrypted form to Apple, to be used for augmenting this crowd-sourced database of Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower locations."