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New Android phones are leaking location data via Wi-Fi according to EFF
The Next Web
According to the EFF's findings, when an Android device with Honeycomb (Android 3.1) or later installed is in Preferred Network Offload (PNO) mode, it broadcast the recent Wi-Fi networks it was connected to. Anyone within Wi-Fi range of the device ...
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