Same with Firefox I'm guessing?
   On Saturday, October 26, 2013, James A. Donald wrote:

     On 2013-10-27 00:53, Kelly John Rose wrote:

     Thunderbird sends gps to google? That seems a bit odd considering
     they
     are not connected.�

     Evil state sponsored conspiracy.  The Cathedral. I thought everyone
     knew this.
     Thunderbird/tools/options/advanced/config editor/geo.enabled.
     Set to disabled.
     Who on this list has not done so?
     Of course people usually use Thunderbird on their main computer,
     which generally does not have a gps, but it usually has a wifi card.
     Thunderbird detects the nearest wifi networks .
     When google does street view for Google Earth, they also detect
     nearby wifi networks, so the data supplied by Thunderbird is matched
     against the data collected by google during street view surveys.
     Thus, whenever and wherever you use Thunderbird, google can supply
     the authorities with the closest street address to where you are
     using Thunderbird, and pictures taken from the street very close to
     that address.  Thus the authorities not only have your email, which
     being sent in the clear has no expectation of privacy, but also a
     picture of building that you are sitting in when sending the email.

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