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Won't they have your phone mast history as a good second go ?
by tezza 10y ago
Won't they have your phone mast history as a good second go ?
- ocdtrekkie 10y agoCell phone location history won't tell you nearly as much. They can generally say which town I'm in, what part of town even. But I could at any point be in hundreds of different buildings at any point from the history of what towers I'm connected to. Meanwhile, Google location history pinpoints you to an exact address give or take every five minutes.
- tezza 10y agoThey'll have much better accuracy than you think. You're connected to one at a time but frequently checking for more appropriate towers in case of signal outages. Using this they could triangulate you quite precisely.
- ocdtrekkie 10y agoThe question there is your use of "could". Is this something they can do if they want to know about you specifically, or something they're already doing (and storing) for all users? The ability to decide to track down one person right now for criminal justice purposes is not nearly as concerning as just being able to request anyone's precise location history going back a decade.
- Loic 10y agoInteractive map rebuilding the location of a German green party representative over 6 months: http://www.zeit.de/datenschutz/malte-spitz-vorratsdaten http://www.zeit.de/datenschutz/malte-spitz-vorratsdaten He sued the Deutsche Telekom to get access to the data. As you can see from the strength and orientation of the communicating antenna, they can basically build again your complete life. So, your phone company knows a lot about you and most likely even more than that as you are most likely using their DNS server to resolve the websites you access using your mobile connection.