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monlockandkey
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Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down...
How did were the apps able to collect geolocation even though location services were disabled?
baggy_trough
7 days ago
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Probably from IP address geolocation.
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abound
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Indeed, the article notes that the lat/long wasn't "GPS exact", more like "postal code exact".
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xenic
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Doing that on the client side sounds pointless though, if you are already transmitting the ip.
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baggy_trough
4 days ago
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It might be for consistency between vendors.
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