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Haha, total and utter bullshit. Someone is pulling a fast one on this sucker of a journalist. You don’t need location turned on to see where someone is lat/long. An average engineer can think of a dozen methods in half an hour.



You could've stated that better but yes, there are many ways to get location signal from mobile phones. Also people do have plenty of apps running and between all the SDKs embedded inside, there is location data being sent all the time.




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