Comment by rollulus

Thanks for asking. Came here to ask since I was curious about this too. I don't find any of the replies here convincing:

- List of open wifis: AFAIK, and in my experience, apps need special permissions to do anything at the wifi level. And yes, iOS location services use wifi info but it's disabled, that's the point;

- IP back to geo: then why not send the IP itself directly?

- Mozilla location services: same as above, why not send the info you send to Mozilla directly to the data harvester which can call Mozilla itself?