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Tower collector rule (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago by FGoo@sh.itjust.works to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Tower Collector is an app to help contribute mobile tower data to Mozilla Location Services and OpenCellID, so that its open to all instead of a few large companies. Both of them are open source projects.
This data can be used for estimating location without GPS for example.
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[–] FGoo@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

It is technically possible for Mozilla or OpenCellId to abuse this data but they're one of the only companies I kinda trust while being a privacy nerd. Also I assume they only store IP's privately and not in the public database.