Mozilla Location Services

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@Dlonk

It was here I learned that GNOME and by extension Phosh on the Librem 5, if not reconfigured manually, might contact an Amazon server to send information about your location, wifi, modem, nearby cell towers, and other data, sometimes seemingly as frequently as every 5 seconds, at its discretion, and in ways that would compromise your anonymity when using a VPN.

Location services are disabled by default in PureOS; you need to enable it manually either in initial setup or system settings. It uses Mozilla’s service, not Amazon’s; it only sends nearby cellular towers and WiFi APs in order to determine your location without using GPS, and I’m pretty sure it doesn’t happen “as frequently as every 5 seconds” (more like every few minutes, and only when running some application that requests location).