The original title of the article is "How apps track your location without asking for permission".

Reading the article to the end:

>> The same method also applies to iOS, which has greater user location data privacy protection. Nonetheless, iOS still allows acquiring the current connected wifi BSSID. A user can deny the location requests on an iOS device at will. However, an app using wifi BSSID can still get a user’s static location without asking.

So singling out Android in HN submission title is grossly misleading. Especially since reading this comments shows that people don't read the articles posted -_-