Android 15 is adding a new location privacy feature that can block location requests from carriers for non-emergency use cases.
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Will it let me control when my location is shared with Google? Where I am, my carrier already knows my name, full address, and credit card information.

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plus ISPs can triangulate you from you mobile connection.

in fact they have to if they want your cell reception to work at all

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Yes, you can obviously already do that.

Whether you trust them or not is a different issue.

Not too sure about that it you installed gapps

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