How do I disable location services system wide?

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Published on 2010-06-05T00:02:50Z Indexed on 2010/06/05 6:03 UTC
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Google has an API which can determine someone's location based on the wifi router names which a user's computer can see. You will see this if you go to google maps and your browser may ask if you would like to share location data.

I am wondering if there is any way to disable this on a system wide setting rather than just in each browser (Chrome can do this too). Is there any way I can limit which applications have a list of the wireless routers I can see?

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