CHESTERFIELD, Va. -- Chesterfield County has unveiled a new website designed to help citizens find publicly-accessible, county-owned WiFi locations throughout Chesterfield. Public WiFi Access ...

Millions of places with free Wi-Fi locations have been located in 200+ countries by WiFi Map. Sourced primarily by users, ...

Wi-Fi is one leg of Apple’s location-finding system used across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and used by Apple’s Find My, Maps, and many other apps, and made available to third-party apps.

Wifi != GPS Google Maps just needs a GPS to track your location. Turn off location services and that will stop. That's totally different from Wifi which is just to download the maps for display.

Well, this shocks me considering the Snowden scandals. Here I turned on my Windows 8 Dell laptop and opened Google map. It asked me if I wanted to see my actual location. I clicked yes and, ban ...

When you first open the app, WiFi Map asks for permission to access your location. It definitely lives up to its claim—it's likely you'll find places with either open or password protected Wi-Fi ...

Little did we know that those cute Google Street View cars were also mapping our Wi-Fi access points. Now, you can opt out of Google's Wi-Fi maps.

WiFi Map is a crowdsourced tool for finding all of the Wi-Fi hotspots in your area as well as the passwords to certain security-protected networks. Anyone in the area is able to comment on a WiFi ...

How it works, according to Google, is that the Android Location Services periodically checks on your location using GPS, Cell-ID, and Wi-Fi to locate your device. When it does this, your Android ...

[Pierre Dandumont] just finished up a little project that will give Google Maps’ location feature a run for its money. It’s a technique that spoofs WiFi networks in order to relocate th… ...

Yes, there are a bunch of other web sites and apps that try to help people find nearby wifi locations. All the ones I’ve seen have had various shortcomings, like outdated or incomplete databases ...