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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months ago

Give permission. Don't give permission. They know where you are anyway

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Give permission. Don't give permission. They know where you are anyway

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months ago

Everyone knows your location

How I tracked myself down using leaked location data in the in-app ads, and what I found along the way.

An amazing bit of digital detective work here. Seems like Linux mobile is your only off ramp from being exhaustively tracked

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Every hacker group or indeed a random guy, can get and routinely gets this data for very cheap. It’s not news because its the norm.

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