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Mozilla Ends its Privacy-Friendly GPS-Style Location Service

Mozilla Location Service offered "a free, open way to offer GPS-style location detection features" for developers on devices without GPS hardware, remembers the Linux blog OMG Ubuntu. It used signals like Wi-Fi access points and Bluetooth beacons "without any of the privacy implications most compet...

It used signals like Wi-Fi access points and Bluetooth beacons "without any of the privacy implications most competing geolocation services have. The article notes that GeoClue "already supports multiple location detection methods, including IP-based ones," so it should continue operating. "We are grateful for the contributions of the community to MLS to both the code and the dataset," a Mozilla senior engineering manager said in a statement.

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