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What Location Tracking Looks Like | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Your cell phone company knows everywhere you go, twenty-four hours a day, every day. How concrete is this fact for you? It's very concrete for Malte Spitz , a German politician and privacy advocate.Data Protection - Datenschutz - Digital - ZEIT ONLINE
Mobile phones are tracking devices that reveal much about our lives. One look at our interactive map of data provided by the Green party politician Malte Spitz shows why. [weiter…] How do families live these days? ZEIT ONLINE analyzed and visualized the data OECD's comprehensive world education ranking report, PISA 2009. [weiter…]
Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union » Judge: No Difference Between Cell Phone Tracking and GPS Vehicle Tracking
A few weeks ago, we wrote about United States v. Maynard , a decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit requiring the government to obtain a warrant when it uses a GPS tracking device to monitor someone's movements.August 10, 2010 GeoEye , Inc. (Nasdaq: GEOY), a premier provider of superior satellite and aerial -based geospatial information and services, announced today it won a $3.8 billion contract award from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) for increased commercial satellite-imaging capacity…Matt O’Connell, GeoEye ‘s chief executive officer and president, said, “We are very gratified by this award. With this award, we’ll continue the accelerated development of our GeoEye-2 satellite so that it is operational in 2013.
GeoEye Wins $3.8 Billion National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency EnhancedView Award – Earth Imagery Featured in Article « High Resolution Imagery
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A university professor and writer working in Upstate New York, I teach courses on map design, geographic information policy, environmental hazards, and map history at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. I’ve been here since 1973, and like it. SU must like what I’m doing because in 1998 they promoted me to Distinguished Professor.
Some maps help us find our way; others restrict where we go and what we do. These maps control behavior, regulating activities from flying to fishing, prohibiting students from one part of town from being schooled on the other, and banishing certain individuals and industries to the periphery. This restrictive cartography has boomed in recent decades as governments seek regulate activities as diverse as hiking, building a residence, opening a store, locating a chemical plant, or painting your house anything but regulation colors.
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Virtual prisons: how e-maps are curtailing our freedom - opinion
ELECTRONIC maps are arguably the quintessential innovation of 20th-century cartography. Although a few academic cartographers accord the map mystical powers, it is merely a tool, useful for good, evil or both, which citizens can resist or constrain - up to a point. The question is not whether e-maps will restrict where we go and what we do, but to what extent. What I call "restrictive cartography" is not in itself new.
Overview: This paper is based on ICSI Technical Report TR-10-005, published May 2, 2010, available at http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/pubs/publication.pl?ID=002875.
Cybercasing the Joint: On the Privacy Implications of Geotagging
L’International Computer Science Institute ( ICSI ), une organisation sans but lucratif rattachée à l’université de Berkeley en Californie, devrait publier sous peu ses derniers travaux concernant le «cybercasing», un terme utilisé par les chercheurs pour désigner la façon dont les textes, photos et vidéos contenant des données de géolocalisation peuvent être utilisées à des fins criminelles. En utilisant des sites tes que Craigslist, Twitter et Youtube, les chercheurs ont été en mesure de croiser des informations contenus dans des contenus accessibles à tous en ligne pour déterminer avec précision l’adresse postale de victimes potentielles, dont celles d’individus ayant publié leurs contenus de façon anonyme. L’expérience n’a pas duré des semaines, ni même quelques jours ou quelques heures, les adresses ont toutes été obtenues avec une précision redoutable en quelques minutes.
Les dangers du géotagging | ReadWriteWeb France
Hacker can trick Google into giving out your location
A well-known hacker has revealed a rather disturbing trick that allows a ‘booby-trapped’ website to work out exactly where you are, to within a few meters. The BBC reports that Samy Kamkar, best known for his Myspace worm in 2005, discussed the technique at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas last week. Here’s how the attack works: It begins by the hacker contacting a target and persuading them to visit a specially-prepared website. He can then use Google’s location database to find the target’s whereabouts. This is made possible because Google’s Street View cars create a database of wifi router locations as they travel around. This is meant to be a good thing as it means Google Maps and other legitimate apps can find out where you are by triangulating nearby wifi hotspots.Website achterhaalt locatie via MAC-adres | Webwereld
Met slechts een script op een site valt het MAC-adres van draadloze modems te achterhalen. Gekoppeld aan de Google Street View database geeft dit de fysieke locatie prijs. Hacker Samy Kamkar heeft op de Black Hat-conferentie deze interessante hack gedemonstreerd. Een speciaal geprepareerde website, dat een speciaal script van Kamkar draait, kan de locatie van nietsvermoedende bezoekers onthullen. Street View database Als iemand deze site bezoekt, geeft de pc door de uitvoer van wat Javascript-code het MAC-adres prijs van de router waarlangs die pc het internet opgaat.Wall Street Journal Stalkers Turn to GPS Video 8/4/2010
Apple's Magic Trackpad, a multitouch device for desktop computers, is one of the first steps toward a future without a mouse and keyboard. It features a full set of gestures that lets users control what's on-screen. At $69, is it worth it?A federal appeals court, for example, issued a ruling last week that contradicts precedents from three other appeals courts over whether the police must obtain a warrant before secretly attaching a Global Positioning System device beneath a car. The issue is whether the Fourth Amendment’s protection against unreasonable searches covers a device that records a suspect’s movements for weeks or months without any need for an officer to trail him. The GPS tracking dispute coincides with a burst of other technological tools that expand police monitoring abilities — including automated license-plate readers in squad cars, speed cameras mounted on streetlight poles, and even the widely discussed prospect of linking face-recognition computer programs to the proliferating number of surveillance cameras.
Judges Divided Over Growing GPS Surveillance - NYTimes.com
George Orwell’s novel 1984 begins with Winston Smith, the main character, seeing posters saying BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU. In 2010, that could be replaced with FACEBOOK IS WATCHING YOU. Or rather, YOUR FRIENDS ON FACEBOOK ARE WATCHING YOU. You and your friends can now post where you are and share this information, if you so chose. Facebook showed off the power of this new location feature at a launch event this week with a giant projection of a U.S. map showing where people were checking in just moments after Places launched.