Thursday, May 28, 2015

Phones' accelerometers allow you to be tracked on the metro

From Sophos Naked Security:




Phones' accelerometers allow you to be tracked on the metro




We know that we can be tracked using GPS data from mobile phones, which can triangulate location from nearby cell towers.




In fact, US courts have been grappling with whether or not the Fourth Amendment protects geolocation data gleaned from our own phones, among other sources.

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