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		jeroenhd 5 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mobile carriers can get your GPS location I believe they're talking about this feature (https://support.google.com/android/answer/9319337?sjid=18079...). This is a system you can disable as a user, but it's not the on-modem feature discussed in the article.

jojobas 4 days ago [–]

How would the modem know your coordinates if the OS doesn't provide them?

retsl 4 days ago | [–]

> [...] The baseband implements other functionality such as Wi-Fi and GPS functionality [...] https://grapheneos.org/faq

It doesn't need to ask the OS, it can just get the coordinates and send them off.

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