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[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 50 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The carrier can still roughly triangulate your position based on the signal strength. Not much you can do on that front but to go in airplane mode if you don't want to be tracked through the cell towers.

[–] Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

They don't even need to do triangulation nowadays, tower has direction and distance, because the way how 4G/5G work. 5G also has MIMO (meaning one burst of data to you carry data to other clients in same direction).

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] comfydecal 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

*Faraday often imo

[–] xep@fedia.io 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Will it let me control when my location is shared with Google? Where I am, my carrier already knows my name, full address, and credit card information.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

plus ISPs can triangulate you from you mobile connection.

in fact they have to if they want your cell reception to work at all

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 26 points 1 year ago

This is unintelligible. If you're connected to a cell tower then they know where you are.

Whereas if you're on airplane mode on a VPN, then they may think you're on a different Continent.

[–] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm going to link my comment from an earlier post of this on a different community.

https://monero.town/comment/4014042

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

yeah and I don't even understand the conversation around accuracy. Even vaguely knowing what im about and doing is to much.

[–] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Time to leave your personal spying gadget at home lol

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

yeah although ironically as a long time smart phone not user im thinking ove getting one as a camera. sigh

[–] SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It should let you choose what location should be sent. Flood their data with junk.

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like a good way to get charged for roamimg

[–] blandfordforever@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Roaming happens when you connect to a different cell network than the one you have a contract with, not when your location data says you are in certain places.

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 2 points 1 year ago

You're right, but I wouldn't be surprised to see a cell company miss an opportunity to charge you a few hundred bucks extra because you're feeding them false data, when they profit off of selling that data