• majster@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    When you open the maps indoor you get immedieate location. This is not from GPS but from Wifi and cell tower data. This is only possible because your phone constatly transmits your location and network data. You can also call it surveilance because its 24/7 logging and processing of your location data.

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      2 days ago

      Do you mean “transmits” as in “from the location service on the phone to the mapping app on the phone”?

      Or do you mean the phones are all updating the wifi SSID geolocation database, which they then all can use for doing wifi-based geolocation?