location tracking

[ergo owl]

Yesterday I decided to check if mozilla location services can locate me even though I have location services turned off on the pinephone and the answer was still yes.

I have cellular network turned off using the mechanical switch at the back of the pinephone as I am travelling at the moment and dont want to run into any cellular fees by accident. I am however using WIFI to access the internet.

The Map application could not get my location and the button for pinpointing my location was greyed out. However, when I opened the weather application the city I was in was shown and the calendar application that is using weather information was also showing the correlating weather for my location. All of this with location services turned off in the Pinephone settings menu.

I am still hoping for a future on a privacy focused phone with settings that do what they should. I still assume that when location services are off, all apps should be prohibited from using location data provided by mozilla. Or better yet, the location services provided by mozilla should be terminated while the setting is set to off.