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So can your cell phone? That one is significantly worse.
by woolvalley 8y ago
So can your cell phone? That one is significantly worse.
- Tijdreiziger 8y agoI've turned off the Google 'location history' setting, and am considering disabling location completely unless I need it, in which case I'll manually enable it. The more radical option (which would also prevent any possible tracking by my provider) would be to forgo a cellphone entirely, but that doesn't seem practical in this day and age.
- shpx 8y agoYour phone's location can be silently triangulated based on what cellphone towers can see your phone and the strength of the signal to them. This is being done and you can buy the data from LocationSmart. This was discussed on HN a few weeks ago [0]. This data was used in Italy to catch CIA agents after they extrajudicially extradited (so to speak) a terrorist[1] in 2003 https://youtu.be/BwGsr3SzCZc?t=7m2s https://youtu.be/BwGsr3SzCZc?t=7m2s. The whole talk is worth watching. The cost of storing this forever is negligible and going down. The government would be foolish or (in my opinion irrationally) principled not to hold on to this for the next 1,000 years. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17095667 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17095667 [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan_Mustafa_Osama_Nasr#Conviction_in_Italy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan_Mustafa_Osama_Nasr#Conv...