KrK
Heavy Artillery For The Little Guy
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 ·Cox HSI
 ·AT&T Southwest
| Well this isn't GPS tracking, from what I can tell. This is tracking you via triangulation.
Basically, since your phone is always hunting for towers to communicate with, your provider always knows (at least within a small area) where your phone is--- not even counting GPS.
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