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mobile carriers don’t need GPS to get your location.
Still creepy that they can just get your phone to tell it to turn though.
Carriers are laughing in cellular triangulation
we’re safe from that particular method here in the boonies. we’re lucky to even have one tower from any provider within range anywhere around here.
Apple made a good step in iOS 26.3 to limit at least one vector of mass surveillance, enabled by having full control of the modem silicon and firmware. They must now allow users to disable GNSS location responses to mobile carriers, and notify the user when such attempts are made to their device.
It seems like the vendor can disable this leak. If we ever get a well-rounded linux OS phone, I imagine this will be moot for those on that platform.
That’s a big ‘if’, and one I desperately want.
Is the article anything beyond iOS advertisment?
