{"id":4683,"date":"2018-10-23T20:46:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T18:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/?p=4683"},"modified":"2018-10-23T08:48:33","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T06:48:33","slug":"how-they-know-where-i-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2018\/10\/23\/how-they-know-where-i-am\/","title":{"rendered":"How they know where I am?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\nI&#x27;ve always wondered how Google can locate us so easily when using an Android phone. Here&#x27;s the answer of Stack Exchange\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/security.stackexchange.com\/questions\/137418\/how-does-google-know-where-i-am\">How does Google know where I am?<\/a>\u00a0and from Znet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/how-google-and-everyone-else-gets-wi-fi-location-data\/\">How Google&#8211;and everyone else&#8211;gets Wi-Fi location data<\/a>.\n\n\n\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-cover-image has-background-dim\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/07\/google-timeline.jpeg)\">\n    <h2><\/h2>\n<\/section>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">I&#x27;ve always wondered how Google can locate us so easily when using an Android phone. Here&#x27;s the answer of Stack Exchange\u00a0How does Google know where I am?\u00a0and from Znet How Google&#8211;and everyone else&#8211;gets Wi-Fi location data.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2018\/10\/23\/how-they-know-where-i-am\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42,19,53,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android","category-mood","category-proprietary-software","category-smartphones"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6daft-1dx","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6608,"url":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2020\/02\/02\/google-keeps-a-scary-amount-of-data-on-you-heres-how-to-find-and-delete-it-cnet\/","url_meta":{"origin":4683,"position":0},"title":"Google keeps a scary amount of data on you. 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