Libre Geolocation

What is this?

Libre Geolocation is an initiative to provide a FOSS, privacy-friendly, community-driven alternative to Mozilla Location Services.

Currently there are multiple development projects part of it:

BeaconDB is building a public domain wireless geolocation database

Libreloc is an implementation of a server and client, written in Rust, at an early stage.

BeaconDB currently provides an API compatible with Mozilla Location Services that can be used on various mobile devices:

Will it publish WiFi MAC addresses and SSID around me?

No. Data will be obfuscated before release and/or published in aggregated formats.

The project aims to be GDPR compliant and avoid privacy leaks like in this research paper.

Please consider submitting data to BeaconDB or follow the development of the software projects.

You can get in touch with us on Matrix at https://matrix.to/%23/%23_oftc_#beacondb:matrix.org or IRC at #beacondb on libera.chat

Table 1. Members and supporters

e.foundation	CalyxOS