Google is receiving Android users’ locations even location services are off | Droolin Dog dot Net

This is bad. Google actively receives location data from Android users even when location services have been switched off. Starting from early 2017, Android phones have been gathering addresses of nearby cellular towers and sending this data back to Google, Quartz reports. The most troubling part is that this has been going on even when users have disabled location services. According to the publication, Android handsets collected location data pretty much all the time and subsequently relayed all stored information back to Google once connected to the internet. Quarts claims that all modern Android phones are affected by this vulnerability.… This story continues at The Next Web Or just read more coverage about: Android,Google Source: https://thenextweb.com/google/2017/11/21/google-android-user-location-data/ Tags: > Tech and Science | #ScienceTech, #pch3lp, #TechNews, Android | #Android, pch3lp, Privacy | #Privacy, Smartphones and Gadgets | #Gadgets, PCH3lp, TechNews

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