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To: MayflowerMadam

MayflowerMadam wrote: “When my sister and I travel together alone, I do location share with my husband. (It’s for safety. I watch too much Oxygen and ID. People disappear.) He knows exactly the restaurant where we’re eating.”

Share my location is exactly that. Your cell phone know where you are using GPS, it then ‘share’s that location with another cell phone. IOW, share your location uses a cooperating cell phone for location. Tracking a cell phone location uses cell phone tower data to locate a cell phone. It isn’t a cooperative process. Different processes, different accuracies. Still, it’s BS to say that cell phone location using towers is only accurate to 9 square miles.


5 posted on 03/06/2024 4:51:46 AM PST by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: DugwayDuke

“Still, it’s BS to say that cell phone location using towers is only accurate to 9 square miles.”

Absolutely, see #8...


10 posted on 03/06/2024 5:01:49 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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