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Figured they would do this and then hide it in Android OS/System so users don't know it was Google's own services draining their battery life the whole time.

If only they'd use this data to at least do something useful, like create a machine learning-enabled firewall to block "rogue" cell towers like cell site simulators. But no, of course not, it has to be done only for ads...




Where does it say it's for ads? The article says the data was dropped on the floor.




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