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that's a cool application, but how does it stack up privacy wise?
it says it doesn't collect any personally identifiable data, but aren't the location data and ip data enough to locate people?
If you use an online service to upload which towers you see, and get an approximate location as a response, then yes, it could be just ad bad from a privacy perspective. What these open databases allow is the possibility to download the whole tower database to your device, and then do the lookups locally.
oh yeah, i guess using Google location services is the same as sharing this with Mozilla or something, and Mozilla isn't Google