Can that be audited?

  • tal@lemmy.today
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    20 hours ago

    Uh. You mean could someone obtain and sell your location based on data from an app on an Android phone?

    Maybe.

    Well, your cell provider knows your location; they have to do so to provide you with cell service.

    There are some other sensors that might be accessed to compute location.

    https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3309074.3309076

    The accelerometer in your phone can be accessed and movements matched to, say, a street layout, plus maybe combined with geolocation of IP addresses when you access the network.

      • a_gee_dizzle@lemmy.ca
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        18 hours ago

        You should be fine then. But if you want to be extra safe you should turn off Apple Intelligence since it’s just Google Gemini under the hood. Your location could still be tracked by which cell towers you connect to, but that information is generally not available to data brokers.

        • Auli@lemmy.ca
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          15 hours ago

          It isn’t just Google Gemini under the hood I mean it is but I imagine Apple is running their own instance of it.