How much privacy can smartphone owners expect? 22 November 2011Last updated at 10:25 By Brian Wheeler BBC News, Washington Many consumers continue to allow mobile applications that can locate them The US Supreme Court could soon allow police to monitor the movements of US mobile phone users without a warrant. Now that most of us carry sophisticated tracking devices in our pockets, how much privacy do we have a right to expect? Millions of us happily invade our own privacy every day on Twitter and Facebook, sharing personal details with the world and broadcasting our location in a way previous generations would have found bizarre. Even those who shy away from social media and new technology in general are not immune. At the other end of the spectrum, in the world of smartphones, privacy is becoming an increasingly outdated concept, argues technology writer Sam Biddle.
"That line of creepiness is there, but it's eroding quickly because, frankly, we are just getting used to it," says Mr Biddle, a staff writer for Gizmodo.com. “Start Quote. Meet the ‘Keyzer Soze’ of Global Phone-Tracking | Danger Room. Chances are you’ve never heard of TruePosition. If you’re an AT&T or T-Mobile customer, though, TruePosition may have heard of you. When you’re in danger, the company can tell the cops where you are, all without you knowing. And now, it’s starting to let governments around the world in on the search. The Pennsylvania company, a holding of the Liberty Media giant that owns Sirius XM and the Atlanta Braves, provides location technology to those soon-to-be-merged carriers, so police, firefighters and medics can know where you’re at in an emergency.
In the U.S., it locates over 60 million 911 calls annually. Around the world, TruePosition markets something it calls “location intelligence,” or LOCINT, to intelligence and law enforcement agencies. TruePosition calls that “geofencing.” ‘The capability of doing mass tracking is possible.’ For the past four years, TruePosition has quietly taken that tracking technology global. That’s got some surveillance experts and mobile activists worried. Mapping MAC addresses - samy kamkar. Android map exposes the data that Google has been collecting from virtually all Android devices and street view cars, using them essentially as global wardriving machines. You can use this tool to accurately locate virtually any router in the world, as well as position iPhones and Android phones. When the phone detects any wireless network, encrypted or otherwise, it sends the BSSID (MAC address) of the router along with signal strength, and most importantly, GPS coordinates up to the mothership.
This page allows you to ping that database and find exactly where any wi-fi router in the world is located. Note that iPhones also send this BSSID and Cell Tower Information up to Apple, as well. You can enter any router BSSID/MAC address to locate the exact physical location below, or try the demonstration router by hitting "Probe" below. Follow me on twitter to hear about more of my extremely thrilling projects. Tell-all telephone | Data Protection | Digital. Betrayed by our own dataMobile 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. Nuclear plants in your neighbourhoodHow many people live near a nuclear power plant in Germany? How many people lives within a radius of 20 kilometres?
PISA based Wealth ComparisonHow do families live these days? A United States of Europe? Petewarden/iPhoneTracker @ GitHub. This open-source application maps the information that your iPhone is recording about your movements. It doesn't record anything itself, it only displays files that are already hidden on your computer. Download the application Read the FAQ Authors Alasdair Allan (alasdair@babilim.co.uk) @aallan on Twitter Pete Warden (pete@petewarden.com) @petewarden on Twitter This application relies on map tiles from the volunteer-run OpenStreetMap project, so please consider supporting their great work. Download Source You can download this project in either zip or tar formats. You can also clone the project with Git by running: $ git clone Is there a Windows version?
Is there a Windows version? The file exists on PCs too, but we haven't written a version of the application that runs on Windows ourselves. How does the application work? How can I examine the data without running the application? ~/Downloads/iphonels.py | grep "consolidated" No. It’s unclear. Untrackerd Destroys Your iPhone's Tracking Data. An App to Stop Tracking. A company that makes security software for smart phones has released a new product that shows when and how an app is snooping on you.
Called WhisperMonitor, the new software gives some Android phone users additional control over what their apps are doing. Two prominent computer security researchers, Moxie Marlinspike and Stuart Anderson, founded Whisper Systems, the company behind the software. The new software is rolled into the latest release of its main product, WhisperCore, which, among other things, encrypts the data that a user stores on an Android device. WhisperMonitor joins a growing number of applications designed for privacy protection. These include Little Snitch, a Mac desktop application that intercepts applications attempting to connect to the Internet, and Lookout Mobile Security, which offers a premium version of its Android app that tracks what data apps can access.
However, Miller notes, WhisperMonitor will induce many pop-ups. Next week, a U.S.