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Airplane mode?
Now you're just carrying a brick. What's the point?
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That does absolutely nothing. If you don't want to be tracked, don't carry a phone. It's the only way.
Airplane mode?
You can carry a phone inside a Faraday cage, or a phone without those radios. I think this remains consistent with my comment.
This is an important story, but a little difficult to summarize. Here's my attempt at an overview: 1. Google stores location history data for more of its mobile users than you might expect. The precision is greatest when GPS is on, but less precise data from cell towers and WiFi sources is used almost any time a Google app is being used on an Android or non-Android phone. There have been cases in the past where Googl…
What do you mean by this?
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That does absolutely nothing. If you don't want to be tracked, don't carry a phone. It's the only way.
I mean, it literally does things.
This seems to me to be a major revelation: police in North Carolina have successfully requested Google account information on all phones near a crime scene. While Google routinely responds to search warrants, this is a much broader type of data request.
Arguably, this leaks everyones data. Anyone who was not in the area will be excluded from the list, therefore letting the police know where I wasn't at the time. I wonder how Google show that on their transparency report? Hopefully "Accounts searched: 1.5 Billion"
This is an important story, but a little difficult to summarize. Here's my attempt at an overview: 1. Google stores location history data for more of its mobile users than you might expect. The precision is greatest when GPS is on, but less precise data from cell towers and WiFi sources is used almost any time a Google app is being used on an Android or non-Android phone. There have been cases in the past where Googl…
>Google stores location history data for more of its mobile users than you might expect What do you mean by this?
This seems to me to be a major revelation: police in North Carolina have successfully requested Google account information on all phones near a crime scene. While Google routinely responds to search warrants, this is a much broader type of data request.
Arguably, this leaks everyones data. Anyone who was not in the area will be excluded from the list, therefore letting the police know where I wasn't at the time. I wonder how Google show that on their transparency report? Hopefully "Accounts searched: 1.5 Billion"
No, at best this only shows that your google linked device (presumably a phone) did not have location information for that area at the specific time.
Alternatively it suggests the device could have been switched off/disconnected from the network to hide your presence - making you really a suspect of interest if your name comes into the investigation for some reason.
Dragnet approaches to law enforcement are inherently wrong. They unreasonably cast suspicion on everyone without any good basis and reverse the accepted safeguard that your guilt requires to be proven, and replace it with the idea that you require to prove your innocence.
This is an important story, but a little difficult to summarize. Here's my attempt at an overview: 1. Google stores location history data for more of its mobile users than you might expect. The precision is greatest when GPS is on, but less precise data from cell towers and WiFi sources is used almost any time a Google app is being used on an Android or non-Android phone. There have been cases in the past where Googl…
GDPR can't come soon enough...
This is an important story, but a little difficult to summarize. Here's my attempt at an overview: 1. Google stores location history data for more of its mobile users than you might expect. The precision is greatest when GPS is on, but less precise data from cell towers and WiFi sources is used almost any time a Google app is being used on an Android or non-Android phone. There have been cases in the past where Googl…
Holy shit. So my paranoia about turning off Google location tracking was completely well-founded, and way more quickly than I would have hoped. GDPR can't come soon enough...
Stop using Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc if you care about privacy!
I noticed you left out Apple - the same company that handed over control of their cloud servers to a Chinese state run company.