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NSA Warns iPhone And Android Users—Disable Location Tracking (www.forbes.com)

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 hours ago

There's the option of removing the main tracking framework, at least on Android (Play Services) or flashing a privacy respecting custom ROM. And Android has the "allow only during usage" option.