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Location tracking of phones is out of control. Here’s how to fight back. (arstechnica.com)
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[–] napoleonsdumbcousin 8 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Pegasus spies on all the data on a phone. If a phone is really infected with that, then location access is the least of your worries. But this is not relevant to this post anyway, because 99,9% of people will never be a valid target for such high-level spyware.