Tower Collector is an app to help contribute mobile tower data to Mozilla Location Services and OpenCellID, so that its open to all instead of a few large companies. Both of them are open source projects.
This data can be used for estimating location without GPS for example.
Fdroid link

  • harpo@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • Jumuta@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      10 months ago

      oh yeah, i guess using Google location services is the same as sharing this with Mozilla or something, and Mozilla isn’t Google