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You don't know how Cisco is triangulating your laptop's position from APs in range, do ya? It's 2015 tech, and it's insane.
Being able to see where everyone's cell phone is in the middle of an open-air concert ... and whether and where it has been on the muni network since ... has been valuable for cops looking to question a potential witness.
But yeah, if you're reading this in the company loo, your IT people probably know, if they cared. They don't care.
Hell, knowing when the boss's phone lights up on the site wifi was great for ambushing him with a purc req first-thing. ..or so I hear.
TL;DR: they don't need to know which IP range you're on, as their layer-1 has already ratted you out.
my direct supervisor has showed me what information he has access to w.r.t. wireless client information, such as client position.
My first thought would be how that is even possible, but given the fact that we record the location of each AP install, this makes a lot more sense.