> By enabling A-GPS, the locations would be narrowed down from a radius of several meters to a far more accurate level.
This is NOT what A-GPS does, the author has no idea what the hell he’s talking about here. A-GPS uses ephemeris data fetched from a server to decrease the time to first fix. If the phone doesn’t do this it relies on tracking satellites and waiting for the same information to download over a much longer time.
What they are describing is more like fusedlocationprovider where android mixes in wifi timing information with the multiple GNSS systems to increase the accuracy. Neither case are specifically tracking, the gov want software instead to send coordinates back to them somehow (a tracking app/api would do this).
seatac76•2mo ago
This will also not pass and will be withdrawn quietly like that last one they tried.
MonkeyClub•2mo ago
> Must we do this dance every week now?
I think that's the point: they'll keep pushing for these things, until the public is fatigued and no longer cares to push back; at which point they'll get them through.
hombre_fatal•2mo ago