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Re:A Cheap Spying Tool With a High Creepy Factor by Spearchucker on Saturday August 03, 2013 @10:57AM (#6152252)
Because GSM, GPS and WiFi combined are, bar GPS, more accurate and pervasive together than any one in isolation. Also because when location services are off, photos don't get tagged with my location coordinates, and apps can't use my location either.
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Re:A Cheap Spying Tool With a High Creepy Factor by jodrellblank on Saturday August 03, 2013 @04:04PM (#6153175)
Location services are configurable per-app in iOS 6, so you can have Maps allowed to use them and Camera forbidden.

(Settings -> Privacy -> Location).

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Re:A Cheap Spying Tool With a High Creepy Factor by Spearchucker on Saturday August 03, 2013 @04:12PM (#6153198)
Android can do that too, I believe. I have a Windows Phone. Settings aren't that granular.
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Re:A Cheap Spying Tool With a High Creepy Factor by wnesensohn on Sunday August 04, 2013 @02:23AM (#6154856)
A Windows Phone App which uses the Location Service is required to have a setting to enable/disable the use of this service[1].

It's probably not as comfortable as the solutions of iOS/Android, but it gets the job done.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop... - 2.7.3

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