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When you open the maps indoor you get immedieate location. This is not from GPS but from Wifi and cell tower data. This is only possible because your phone constatly transmits your location and network data. You can also call it surveilance because its 24/7 logging and processing of your location data.
Do you mean "transmits" as in "from the location service on the phone to the mapping app on the phone"?
Or do you mean the phones are all updating the wifi SSID geolocation database, which they then all can use for doing wifi-based geolocation?
yes the SSID database
does not happen to me, probably because i keep mobile data off and in the developer settings there is a keep mobile data always option that is enabled by default, for "fast network switching", I disable it and beyond that I disable google playservices and all google related or adjacent apps that cant be uninstalled from my oem rom