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by twodave
1764 days ago
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An actual connection is not necessary for wifi to contribute to location accuracy. It just uses signal strength to available access points to triangulate. How folks like Google/Apple/etc. are able to get accurate location data for those access points is unknown to me. |
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https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207056#:~:text=If%20Locati....
TLDR Android & iOS Location Services will automatically contribute wifi data and correlate it with GPS. This can be audited to prove it's anonymously uploaded but it does happen.