[ExI] chilling effects

[Kelly John Rose]

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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