Something that logically sounds quite far away, taking into account that in many cases this mobility is now restricted. Then we learned some ways to prevent access to our location by operators, usually through the applications and client areas of these operators. But in recent times some manufacturers, few indeed, have introduced the possibility of expressly avoiding sharing this data with the operator.
For example, that operator access to our location for studies such as that of the INE could have been avoided with this functionality. Operators typically advocate access to our location data to improve data analysis for their downstream metrics. Logically it is something that neither goes nor comes to us. Therefore we are sovereign to choose if we want that data to be shared or not. Not all manufacturers offer the possibility of preventing this data from being shared, in all of them we can find the activation or deactivation of sending the location to the emergency services (ELS) but not doing it to the operator. If you have the possibility, it's a good way to be able to limit the location data that leaves our phone, in such a way that the circulation of that information outside our phone is minimized, and we have more control over it.
How to avoid it?
Well, as we say, this functionality is present only in some mobiles, not in all, and it also depends on the operator we have, and if it is a free mobile or an operator. In any case, we will only be able to find this function in the phone's location settings, in such a way that we will expressly prevent the operator's access to our location data. In fact, the mobile will not allow access to them since it will not satisfy the requests for information on the location of the operators. Therefore, to prevent location sharing, you should do the following:
Once inside we only have the option to activate or deactivate this feature thanks to a sliding button. In the event that we disable it, we will prevent operators from using the location at will. Although it will not prevent them from continuing to access it in emergencies, in which the phone will share them. Something logical, which otherwise would go against us in a moment as difficult as the one that can arise from an emergency situation.
Therefore we are not talking about the functionality of activating or not the location for emergency situations, but specific to prevent the operator from accessing our location data. However, it must be remembered that there are several ways that an operator can access our location, without the need to expressly access that data. Simply triangulating the position of the antennas to which we connect via Wi-Fi can be obtained. But this way we will at least make it more difficult for the operators.