Many a time there may be applications that you are working upon which request for details about your location. This is over and above the details of your browsing history. The choice is left to you whether you want to share your location details with others. Your browsers also need your location details to search for appropriate information that may be location specific when you query. Similarly information of your location is required for navigational purposes too.
But Fire Fox 3.5 does not use or share this information with out the user’s consent. “Google Location Services” is used as default for calculating your position. But even this service exchanges latitude and longitude that is encrypted before exchange. Details of your browsing history are at no time exchanged.
If you have given permission to give details of your location to a site, you can also cancel it by visiting that site and clicking on the Tools option and select “Page Info”. Then select the “Permission Tab” and make necessary changes to “Share Location”.
Then go to the Tools menu again and click on the “Details” arrow. Select the “Cookies” option and then you should click on “Clear Now”.
By this process Google that otherwise shares your IP address, nearest wireless connection point and a random number that it allocates to you, will disable the passage of this information if requested.
One question comes to our mind what about the mobile phones we use? Do they also pass on this information?
