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Mobile carriers can get your GPS location (an.dywa.ng)
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[–] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The article mentions that.

But IMO, it's kind of insane that the protocol also kind of forces your phone to send GPS coordinates over... Like.... How the Frick is that necessary and justified at all and became part of the protocol?

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I believe it is for beam forming (the tower needs to know where to send the signal

[–] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 1 points 6 days ago

But it does not work when GPS is disabled on your phone. So, it normally has to work without it.