Ever heard of the Wi-Fi Positioning System? Unlike GPS, you are contributing to this style of tracking just by connecting your device to a Wi-Fi network.
Cute little blog I found today about this topic. Just thought it would be a nice refresher if you were not aware of this yet.
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