Jan K. <
janicekoziol@nie.ma.spamu.prosze.com> wrote:
Which network is safer in terms of privacy?
The Wi-Fi or the Cellular Data network?
On cellular the network operator can triangulate your position.
On wifi the network operator knows you are within range of their access point(s).
Then each carrier has the ability to profile your traffic unless you use a
VPN (your traffic is likely to be encrypted so they can't see
inside it, but they can see which servers you talk to)
On cellular you typically use one network the whole time (so one warrant to access your location information), on wifi you likely move between multiple locations and so networks (multiple warrants, and they have to find out
where you went first).
So the first two are equal, but wifi is more private in the sense of making harder it work for law enforcement / the secret police / etc, if that
concerns you, because they need more warrants / to torture more shopkeepers.
On wifi it's possible the coffee shop doesn't keep logs of who did what,
but they may have security cameras that place you inside (and maybe see your screen).
If your concern is more about tracking for ads, the wifi may leak more information about your location to websites (eg connecting from branch1234.starbucks.com if they know where that is) whereas typically
cellular won't expose any location-based information to the websites you access.
Theo
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