Private SUPL Server or Nordic?

[seludeft]

Hi,

I see from the code in GitHub:

https://github.com/NordicPlayground/fw-nrfconnect-nrf/blob/master/samples/nrf9160/gps/src/supl_support.c

#define SUPL_SERVER      "supl.google.com"
#define SUPL_SERVER_PORT 7276

That the new A-GPS is using google's SUPL server. 

Since google is like "The Borg" (Star Trek reference) / "Big brother" ... tracking everything about all users using their servers .. it is a bit unacceptable that all the billions of IOT devices we (all) will create, shall by default be tracked by google.

Since we want to provide "100% Privacy" in our IOT devices we are creating, is it possible to run our own SUPL server? And if so, could you provide some more information regarding this procedure?

Also, maybe Nordic could instead begin running their own SUPL server? for allowing quick testing of IOT.

/Daniel

[Amanda Hsieh]

Hi Daniel, 

To allow quick testing of IoT I suggest to stick to Google. We have used is a reference server when implementing the SUPL client and that's for a reason. Easy available.

Setting up your own server is a bigger task. You could probably find some reference implementation of the sever out there, but the hard part would be to get the SUPL data. I don't think this is a good option. 

Nordic is looking into alternative ways of providing this data to the IoT devices. However, I cannot promise anything. 

Some of the backgrounds for adding SUPL client is that some operator's supports this as a service inside their network.

-Amanda H.