Android 15 may let you control when your location is shared with carriers
Android 15 may let you control when your location is shared with carriers
Android 15 is adding a new location privacy feature that can block location requests from carriers for non-emergency use cases.
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.
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).
Airplane mode, always!
*Faraday often imo
There even have been instances where some chinese phone manufacturers were abusing the emergency network while your phone is off to send user data to their servers ... so they could even triangulate your position while your phone is turned off.
Any source for that?
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.
Yes, you can obviously already do that.
Whether you trust them or not is a different issue.
Not too sure about that it you installed gapps
plus ISPs can triangulate you from you mobile connection.
in fact they have to if they want your cell reception to work at all
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.
I'm going to link my comment from an earlier post of this on a different community.
yeah and I don't even understand the conversation around accuracy. Even vaguely knowing what im about and doing is to much.
Imo apps knowing what city I am in is very different from apps knowing exactly where I am. While I wouldn't want to leak either my exact location or my city to someone that shouldn't have access to it, I don't really mind that much (compared to exact) if someone knows the city.
A weather app barely needs any accuracy so it shouldn't have it. But a navigation app does so it gets it.