Yep. These services only store and transmit the BSSID (which is most often the mac address of the network card).
The only place the SSID (clear text name) is used is in filtering out things on the client end. Both looking for "no SSID" / hidden networks and the _nomap suffix. The SSID is never sent to any service.
Both the Mozilla API as well as Google have this "you need to know two" protection. At Mozilla we go a bit further and also make sure the two BSSID's you are sending aren't almost identical. That happens in a lot of modern access points who are setup with separate 2.4 and 5GHz networks or those who have a guest network.
Hanno from Mozilla here. Marvin reached out to us about a month back and we have been slow to respond. He just got an email back a week ago. So I think this is still going to happen, but no concrete timeline yet.
The app isn't really polished yet, so we deliberately kept it out of the play store for now. The app does have its own updater, so once you installed it, it should stay current.
Of course we are thinking about adding it to the play store, but there is no concrete timeline yet.
Thx for the feedback, I've fixed the example to have the right format and provided full URL's in the API docs.
The docs where written under the assumption of being reusable for anyone installed a ichnaea server and not just the specific instance we currently run. But that apparently isn't all too helpful right now :)
The only place the SSID (clear text name) is used is in filtering out things on the client end. Both looking for "no SSID" / hidden networks and the _nomap suffix. The SSID is never sent to any service.