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AtheistCrusader

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3. They may have repeaters inside the church as well.

Reply to Eugene (Reply #2)

Mon Jul 22, 2019, 09:42 AM

Jul 2019

'They' being the church, probably just trying to ensure better signal quality inside brick/masonry buildings, but the tighter the correlation of your phone to it's 'tower' (repeater or otherwise), the more valuable the location data in the hands of the phone company.

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Catholics in Iowa went to church. Steve Bannon tracked their phones. [View all] Eugene Jul 2019 OP

Is this a situation in which to use Backseat Driver Jul 2019 #1

With geofencing, they can approximate your phone's location when it contacts the tower. Eugene Jul 2019 #2

They may have repeaters inside the church as well. AtheistCrusader Jul 2019 #3

Catholic Churches long made an art of spying on themselves Bretton Garcia Jul 2019 #4