>Your computer will poll for the SSID it's setup to auto-associate to (as they may be hidden). I get the SSID of your home network, and look it up in the database.
AFAIK this sort of polling only happens if your phone has hidden networks remembered. Also, the probe it sends is for the ESSID (human readable string), not the BSSID (mac address). Most databases (including google) only allows for lookup by BSSID not ESSID so doing that sort of lookup is non-trivial.
AFAIK this sort of polling only happens if your phone has hidden networks remembered. Also, the probe it sends is for the ESSID (human readable string), not the BSSID (mac address). Most databases (including google) only allows for lookup by BSSID not ESSID so doing that sort of lookup is non-trivial.