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Google Deducing Wireless Location Data

Posted by timothy on from the peekaboo-the-van-sees-you dept.

bizwriter writes "When it comes to knowing where wireless users are, the carriers have had a lock on the data. But a patent application shows that Google is trying to deduce the information based on packet headers and estimated transmission rates. This would let it walk right around carriers and become another source of location data to advertisers."

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  1. Re:Carriers can mess with this? by Moridin42 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Carriers need to do something deliberate to randomly slow transmission rates for random customers? I would like to know which carrier this is. Are they located in the US?

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  2. Re:Amazing Google by davester666 · · Score: 2, Funny

    call me if Google manages to pass any of the wireless carriers on the 'evil' scale...if it's even possible.

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