My team and I are watching you as we speak. Spoiler alert: Your tinfoil hat doesn't help.
Weird, I thought we stopped doing tinfoil hat jokes post-Snowden.
Ah, I was just joking around my username!
I'm glad that this will massively increase safety of the general public. No more cut out signals confusing police responders. What are you afraid of? It can only be used by authorized apps.
GPS is passive.
I don’t share parent’s pessimism, but I think that comment was probably referring to tracking inside apps and having better tracking accuracy.
Basically Pokemon Go would know you went to the burger shop and not the Hawaian pancake shop 50m before.
Tracking apps and phones in general don't rely purely on GPS/GNSS. WiFi and Bluetooth-based positioning systems have been used in tandem with satellite positioning for years now. This won't change much, except for having better positioning in the middle of nowhere.
pokemon go[1] has maps based on visual maps, so are much more accurate and gives you where the phone is pointing, not just lat lon height. My old company had 20cm accuracy, we can assume that its reasonably close to that now. even with shitty crowd sourced photos.
Dual band (30cm accuracy) would mean that they know that you weren't walking on the sidewalk during pokemon go and could report you for jwalking.
On iOS, the only way to read GPS location also sends GPS location to Apple, so GP has a point. This has been supported on Android for years without such tracking.
but the android running it is active, whats your point?