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Re:Telegram Trilateration: Abusing “People Near Me” and trac... by Scaevolus on Friday March 11, 2022 @09:02PM (#30648292)
It depends on when they do the rounding.

If they round the final distance number, all you've done is reduced the accuracy to concentric circles like a dartboard, and you simply need more samples to regain the precision.

If they round the input location to the centroid of some larger region-- a square several kilometers on a side or a map shape for a region-- there's no precise information to be leaked.

Re:Telegram Trilateration: Abusing “People Near Me” and trac... by diebeforei485 on Friday March 11, 2022 @09:09PM (#30648329)
On an iPhone, that's what disabling "Precise Location" does.
Re:Telegram Trilateration: Abusing “People Near Me” and trac... by throw872291 on Friday March 11, 2022 @09:59PM (#30648600)
Android 12 has it too.
Re:Telegram Trilateration: Abusing “People Near Me” and trac... by throw872291 on Friday March 11, 2022 @09:46PM (#30648531)
Is there a go-to library for this thing? So many apps mess this up.