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BBC News - How much privacy can smartphone owners expect?
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.
Meet the ‘Keyzer Soze’ of Global Phone-Tracking | Danger Room | Wired.com
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.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.
mapping MAC addresses - samy kamkar
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…]
Tell-all telephone | Data Protection | Digital | ZEIT ONLINE
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. The file exists on PCs too, but we haven't written a version of the application that runs on Windows ourselves. If you do a web search, you'll now find versions that other people have created, but while we have no reason to believe they contain any malicious code, we haven't inspected and verified any of them ourselves. Since we can't vouch for them we don't feel capable of recommending one in particular.
Untrackerd Destroys Your iPhone's Tracking Data
You've probably learned recently that your iPhone is tracking your whereabouts . If you don't like this, Untrackerd is a jailbreak app that can put a stop to the problem. Untrackerd is a quick install through Cydia. It'll put no icon on your home screen and there aren't any settings to configure in your iPhone's Settings app. Untrackerd simply runs in the background and cleans up any location history data that's just sitting on your phone and being sync'd back to your computer. You don't have to do anything other than install it to prevent any future location history from syncing to your machine.
An App to Stop Tracking - Technology Review
Keeping watch: WhisperMonitor includes an optional feature that shows where apps are sending data to, and how often—useful information for those trying to protect their data. 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.