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Re:Everyone knows your location, Part 2: try it yourself and... by sweetjuly on Sunday April 20, 2025 @08:11PM (#43747518)
Relatedly, one of my favorite recent papers is "Surveilling the Masses with Wi-Fi-Based Positioning System" [1]. In the paper, they (ab)use the fact that smartphones report the location of WiFi access points to public databases in order to track human migration over several large scale events (from natural disasters to the invasion of Ukraine).

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.14975

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