This is not a capability that can be disabled in your phone as it's controlled on Grindr's servers.
The technical elements here are known as XEP-0004, XEP-0080 and XEP-0122. This associates the device id, the device's phone number and the device's exact location which is provided through XMPP back to Grindr. The data isn't visible in the application it's the XMPP message format that enables this which is provided by your device and the location record (on an iphone, for example) through something called Madrid tables. This is the embedded data certain governments take advantage of, and how they're able to identify users in countries where being gay is a crime. Part of the reason with the location information is Grindr captures your phone number as part of the dataset. Steve often has trouble getting into the virtual meat markets like AtlantaM4M, AtlantaM4M2 or AtlantaM4Mnow. No hotels are exclusively for gay men anymore a sign of the liberal times we guess. AOL's chat rooms are overflowing with gay men most nights of the week. These chat rooms provided an often anonymous venue for gay and bisexual men to. We can also identify you in a moving vehicle down a highway. Your complete directory to LGBT life in Eindhoven Netherlands. In addition, AOL popularized chat rooms in the 1990s: a virtual space. R46 We can distinguish you right down to your apartment. You can read about the two succeeding development projects that exposed it, one called FUKR and it's successor called GUKR
