On Jun 7, 2017, at 12:06 PM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso(_at_)mit(_dot_)edu> wrote:
On many platforms you can turn off locaion services (such as those
that depend on sending which cell towers or WiFi AP's your phone can
see) off. This is true for Android, IOS, and Windows 10.
Unfortunately there is typically no way to turn off just the location service
that's broken. Also, web sites guess your location regardless of whether you
have location services enabled: it only takes one person with a phone that's
reporting the BSSID of its AP to something that does geolocation to leak it.
So asking people to shut this off on the client isn't going to improve the UX
problem for anyone, unfortunately.