Many phones now come equipped with the ability to find their location pretty much anywhere in the country using one of two common geolocation methods. The first is to triangulate off of pings on cell towers - using the phone network itself to figure out where the phone is in relation to various towers.
The second method is for the device to detect a wireless signals and send this back to the network computer which compares these to the signal’s “IP and Mac addresses” and then uses a database of these locations to get an More»

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