Re Delete Google Maps? Go ahead, says Google, we'll still track you

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Karl Auerbach <karl () cavebear com>
> Date: September 13, 2016 at 1:27:38 PM EDT
> To: dave () farber net, ip <ip () listbox com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] Delete Google Maps? Go ahead, says Google, we'll still track you
>
> I think that the cited article may be confusing two technologies.
>
> It is highly likely that no GPS, cell-tower, of Wi-Fi SSID location service at all was involve when when the 
> mentioned researcher walked into a McDonalds an his phone prompted him to download a Mickey-D's App.
>
> Rather, Google, and others, are encouraging companies to deploy Bluetooth based "beacons" in their stores.  The 
> location those beacons is fixed and known.  Phones listen to the beacon signals.  Each beacon is named.  The phone 
> contacts Google or Apple to resolve the beacon's name into an action, such as prompting the user to download a store 
> app.
>
> This of course, means that your location is known, and is provided to Google (or Apple or ..), but the location 
> information comes from proximity to the beacon, not from any GPS or cell-tower based location service.
>
> (This is not to say that these beacons could form yet another source of location information for the location 
> services in the phone.)
>         --karl--
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >
> > Delete Google Maps? Go ahead, says Google, we'll still track you
> > Google Play services need constant location info
> > By Kieren McCarthy
> > Sep 12 2016
> > <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/12/turn_off_location_services_go_ahead_says_google_well_still_track_you/>
> >
> > ...
> > Needless to say, this is not making some users very happy. Security researcher Mustafa Al-Bassam reported on Twitter 
> > that he "almost had a heart attack" when he walked into a McDonald's and was prompted on his phone to download the 
> > fast food restaurant's app.
> >
> > Al-Bassam dug into his phone's apps to figure out how that had happened, and was amazed to find that his suspected 
> > culprit – Google Maps – was not responsible. It was Google Play that had monitored his location thousands of times.



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