Minoru Saba<p>&quot;How Wi-Fi Gives Away Your Location&quot;</p><p>&quot;Over a decade ago, Google was gathering data about Wi-Fi networks using its Street View cars... saving the Wi-Fi data for use with Location Services&quot;</p><p>&quot;Street View cars no longer drive around scanning everyone&#39;s Wi-Fi&quot;<br />&quot;Instead...your phone scans your nearby wireless networks and uploads a list of them to Google&#39;s Location Services database along with your current location&quot;<br /><a href="https://www.howtogeek.com/708500/how-devices-use-wi-fi-to-determine-your-physical-location/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">howtogeek.com/708500/how-devic</span><span class="invisible">es-use-wi-fi-to-determine-your-physical-location/</span></a><br /><a href="https://toad.social/tags/WiFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WiFi</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/PhysicalLocation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PhysicalLocation</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>privacy</span></a></p>