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tpmx on April 25, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Smartphones with Qualcomm chip secretly send perso...

> It would be enough to say "hey, did you know that most phones send tracking data to the manufacturer when you download AGPS information?

Someone credible: please write and submit such a blog post to HN so that we can have the discussion from that perspective instead. The current perspective is broken; discussion-wise.

dagmx on April 26, 2023 [–]

That assumes there’s really anything to discuss here.

This is just A-GPS to work and has been like that for over a decade.

The Wikipedia page has about as much information as a blog post would https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GNSS?wprov=sfti1

Or better yet, from the GrapheneOS devs themselves https://reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/12yii9u/_/jhojlr7/?con...

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