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Mobile network location data is much more coarse than GPS data, so there's "that" to protect.



Are you sure? If the data in question also covers WiFi signals, which include the signals emitted by every phone near you, then I'm not sure the data really is that coarse.


I'm presuming here the location data is gathered outside of the phone (eg. by cell towers), not the phone itself. If you have access to the phone itself (eg. malicious app), then you can easily get GPS data as well.




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