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How did the app knew my location? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 days ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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I’m traveling to Barcelona and when I leave the train and walk on the platform I receive a notification from Cabify (Like Uber/Lyft) referencing the station where I am.

I only gave permissions of location only when using the app, and I did not used it in months.

How is it possible?

Screencap of an app notification referencing the train station I just arrived
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[–] 2 points 2 days ago*

You can doubt all you want, but I'm just telling you exactly how it is. I checked it in multiple ip location check services. They gave me an IP that was geolocated to my telco providers city.

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