Cellphones Track Your Every Move and You May Not Even Know
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#2The tracking isn't exactly a revelation--same deal for using every scrap of customer data for marketing.
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#3"...and you may not even know" - huh? Seriously? I thought this is well-known. The privacy implications have been discussed before many times (even Wikipedia knows about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_tracking#Privacy)
It's just that most people don't care enough, or at least they are willing to trade that part of privacy against the advantages of ubiquitous connectivity.
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#4"...and you may not even know" - huh? Seriously? I thought this is well-known. The privacy implications have been discussed before many times (even Wikipedia knows about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_tracking#Privacy ) It's just that most people don't care enough, or at least they are willing to trade that part of privacy against the advantages of ubiquitous connectivity.
Everyone knows abstractly that cell providers can store all your location information. But the extent and detail that this real data set shows can be an eye opener.
The most shocking thing to me is that this information wasn't recorded because he was specifically targeted, but this information is stored for everyone, for such a long time.
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#5http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2327282
Stallman +1
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#6Is there any relatively easy way to find/record/request this information for one's own phone? Would be enlightening.
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#7The tracking isn't exactly a revelation--same deal for using every scrap of customer data for marketing.
If I go into a store and pay for something with cash (and the store is a major chain), invariably I get an added part on the register receipt wanting me to participate in a store survey. The opinion site usually have a web alternative, but they want a phone number "so that we can notify you if you win". Feels heavily like a form of customer profile creation / data mining to me.
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#8I was watching the TV show Life the other day, and there were a surprising number of situations in which the protagonist relied on his cell phone while committing criminal acts, or traveling to or from criminal acts. And he's LAPD, so such a character would know better in real life. (Remember OJ Simpson's capture?)
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#9The article mentions the data file and visualizations, but doesn't link them:
Raw data file:
https://spreadsheets2.google.com/ccc?authkey=COCjw-kG&hl...
Visualization (in German):
Re: Cellphones Track Your Every Move and You May Not Even Know
#10Is there any relatively easy way to find/record/request this information for one's own phone? Would be enlightening.
That would depend entirely on the local laws. You can be pretty sure that your local police force can obtain it though.