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Wow, ok, this is freaky.
New computer. Fedora Silverblue 36. Not signed into anything. Location services is on (using Mozilla location services). I’ve been living in Ireland now for 3+ years.
I open GNOME Maps app. I grant it location access. I press the “Go to current location” button.
It goes to the exact location of the home we had in Malmö, Sweden.
What. The. Fuck?
OK, so I have no idea how that’s possible. Mozilla must have somehow cached that location but how do they know it’s me?
Fucking hell, as some of you have pointed out in the comments, also, it’s tied to my router. I have the same router I had in Malmö. If this is not a GDPR violation, I have no idea what is.
So Mozilla – Defender of Privacy™ – is storing my location history, tied to my router, without ever having gotten consent from me to do so.
This is a fucking scandal.
@aral when you broadcast your presence in public by connecting to the public internet ...
𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚊 
@aral To better understand your position here: if you don't like the way Mozilla's geolocation works, what would you say about https://github.com/n76/DejaVu, that's basically the same approach, but the data about your WiFi AP collected by users are stored at their phones and serve to only those users?
@aral How is the router being identified then? The mac address is not exiting the LAN, is it?