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You "lost" the second your phone obtains a mobile phone signal. At that point the telco can roughly triangulate your position using the base stations that you'
by threeseed 7y ago
You "lost" the second your phone obtains a mobile phone signal.
At that point the telco can roughly triangulate your position using the base stations that you're connected to. And determine who is nearby to you.
And better not tell the author of this article but this data has been made available to authorities for decades.
- jka 7y ago> And better not tell the author of this article but this data has been made available to authorities for decades. Sometimes people can surprise us; the author is least somewhat familiar with GSM networks, and perhaps you'd both enjoy a learning experience if you're able to share any additional information you have with them.
- fourthark 7y agoIt is very rough though. Like “with 60% probability we think these two people are on the same block”. Totally oversold technology.
- kylehotchkiss 7y agoMy worry is more that there will be an exploit for Android that will collect all those Bluetooth IDs and geolocations and upload them somewhere that somebody could use nefariously. Not saying that telcos have shown any moral high ground with location data, even Google has this level of location tracking enabled for a considerable amount of people. I'm most worried about an Elasticsearch instance cropping up where somebody's bluetooth ID can be used to see how they get to work, etc. Faraday cage bag for phone seems like a reasonable solution.