Dramatic shift in location accuracy distribution starting February 15

Question

I am trying to make sense of an inexplicable situation — starting February 15, a remarkably high percentage of the location readings we captured in our app are reporting exa

Answer 1

I am not a GPS expert, but years ago I picked up somewhere that GPS technology is (still) a military technology, meaning that if military purposes require it, civil usage/accuracy of GPS functionality may be limited from time to time...

But this was years ago. Of course (and hopefully) I am mistaken, but just wanted to share this possibility with you.

Edit:

Never mind. After reading this, I understand that this "Selective Availability" feature is abandoned a long time ago.