Mobile carriers can get your GPS location
Summary
The article discusses how Apple’s iOS 26.3 privacy update limits precise location data available to cellular networks, but GNSS coordinates can still be transmitted to carriers via control-plane protocols like RRLP and LPP. It traces historical use of such data by agencies, notes Israel’s COVID-19 contact tracing context, and raises security concerns about potential remote exploitation, while advocating user controls to disable GNSS responses and to notify users when such requests occur.