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Android is reporting your GPS location along with visible BSSIDs, that's how this database is built and updated (so does Apple on iOS).

Both have location privacy controls that govern that, and there's no particular reason to believe they ignore them.



Like I said, I may be overly cynical, but I do have a particular reason to believe the largest surveillance capitalism and advertising company in the world might be ignoring my privacy preferences...

(And Apple might be too, but they've got different motivations and incentives around iOS user privacy that Google for Android users...)




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