How can your approximate location be found using WiFi SSIDs?

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How can your approximate location be found using WiFi SSIDs?

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IIRC, it involves someone keeping track of the SSIDs and location data (from a GPS) together and building up a database of that information. Google got caught doing that with the vans they use to take pictures for street view a couple years back and a bunch of people got mad about it.

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