• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    21 days ago

    Yeah, really.

    I guess the normies are finally figuring out what ‘enable precise location’… actually means?

    smdh

    … are we gonna get to the point where somebody like you with essentially invasive local telemetry… is basically like a low level 40k psyker?

    … and then someone who actually just turns all that shit off and doesn’t send out those signals… is like a blank?

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      20 days ago

      a void is still data

      Presise location has nothing to do with it, ur phone is emitting rf beacons all the time.

      Scanning for wifi and Bluetooth… it’s like sonar, everyone sees you scanning.

      Not many phones passive scan, they send out queries to make itself “helpful” to consumers

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        20 days ago

        Thats… thats what ‘precise location’ is.

        Google or whoever, they have a gigantic map of all entirely or mostly stationary wifi and bluetooth connection points.

        When you have your phone on, and drive or walk past them… your phone is recognizing it is within range of whatever stationary networks, has whatever signal strength to them, even if it isnt actually connecting to them.

        So, you measure those too, and then combine that with the gps map, where the stationary wifi/bt locations have known locations.

        Whamo presto, your location is now more precise.