Join to Mozilla Location Service in Fedora

Florian Weimer fweimer at redhat.com
Mon Nov 10 10:45:29 UTC 2014


On 11/07/2014 01:33 PM, Sudhir Khanger wrote:
> I think it's a misconception that Google saves personal location data by
> default. When you setup your device for the first time it will ask you to
> enable location reporting. You can disable location reporting and delete
> location history on your Android devices using this link [1]. You will also
> lose access to all the value that location aware apps provide.
>
> [1] https://support.google.com/gmm/answer/3118687?hl=en

Unfortunately, this does not say that it turns off reporting of 
encountered SSIDs, (router) MAC address, and Cell ID information.  I 
think if you opt not to use this data to determine your own location, it 
is still reported to Google to improve accuracy for those who use 
Google's location services.

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security


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