Systems and methods for leveraging global positioning repeaters to locate devices and to obfuscate device location

A non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium having encoded thereon, machine instructions executable by a processor for determining and reporting both actual locations and obfuscated locations of mobile devices, the mobile devices operating in a wireless communications network, wherein the processor executes the machine instructions to:

• control a receive section of a wireless communication with one or more geo-position satellites (GPS), the receive section comprising one or more GPS receive antennae, each of the one or more GPS receive antennae coupled by a corresponding cable to one or more of a plurality of GPS repeaters, wherein the mobile devices are configured to compute and report a GPS location of the mobile device;
• control a monitoring section in wireless communication with the mobile devices over the wireless communications network, wherein the processor accesses or more mapping tables, wherein a mapping table function relates an actual location of a GPS repeater to an obfuscated location of the GPS repeater, wherein a computed GPS location of the mobile device is the obfuscated location of a nearest GPS repeater and the actual location of the mobile device is the obfuscated location of the GPS repeater minus an obfuscation offset;
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• the processor reporting both the actual location and the obfuscated location of the mobile device.

A computer-implemented method for obfuscating locations of mobile devices operating in a wireless communications network and for simultaneously determining and reporting both actual locations and obfuscated locations of the mobile devices, the method, comprising:

• a processor controlling a receive section in wireless communication with a mobile device over the wireless communications network, and further in communication with one or more geo-position satellites (GPS), the receive section comprising one or more GPS receive antennae coupled by a corresponding cable to corresponding ones of GPS repeaters, wherein the mobile device is configured to compute and report a GPS location of the mobile device;
• the processor controlling a monitoring section in wireless communication with the mobile device over the wireless communications network, wherein the processor accesses one or more GPS repeater mapping tables, wherein a GPS repeater mapping table relates an actual location of a GPS repeater to an obfuscated location of the GPS repeater, wherein a difference between the actual location of the GPS repeater and the obfuscated location of the GPS repeater is established by an offset length of the cable, wherein the computed GPS location of the mobile device is the obfuscated location of a nearest GPS repeater and the actual location of the mobile device is the obfuscated location of the GPS repeater minus the obfuscation offset;
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• the processor reporting both the actual location and the obfuscated location of the mobile device.