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Mobile carriers can get your GPS location

created: Jan. 31, 2026, 5:21 p.m. | updated: Feb. 1, 2026, 6:49 a.m.

Mobile carriers can get your GPS locationIn iOS 26.3, Apple introduced a new privacy feature which limits “precise location” data made available to cellular networks via cell towers. I have served on a jury where the prosecution obtained location data from cell towers. According to news sources, it routinely collects information from cellular companies and identifies the location of all phones through cellular antenna triangulation and GPS data. This is good evidence that the location data Israeli carriers are collecting are far more precise than what cell towers alone can achieve. They must now allow users to disable GNSS location responses to mobile carriers, and notify the user when such attempts are made to their device.

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