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Apple AirTags Are Being Used to Track People and Cars

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apple, cars, geolocation, privacy, Security technology, surveillance, tracking, Uncategorized

This development suprises no one who has been paying attention: Researchers now believe AirTags, which are equipped with Bluetooth technology, could be revealing a more widespread problem of tech-enabled tracking. They emit a digital signal that can be detected by devices running Apple’s mobile operating system. Those devices then report where an AirTag has last … Read More “Apple AirTags Are Being Used to Track People and Cars” »

Thieves Using AirTags to “Follow” Cars

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apple, cars, geolocation, Security technology, theft, tracking, Uncategorized

From Ontario and not surprising: Since September 2021, officers have investigated five incidents where suspects have placed small tracking devices on high-end vehicles so they can later locate and steal them. Brand name “air tags” are placed in out-of-sight areas of the target vehicles when they are parked in public places like malls or parking … Read More “Thieves Using AirTags to “Follow” Cars” »

De-anonymization Story

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data collection, de-anonymization, geolocation, privacy, pseudonymity, Security technology, surveillance, Uncategorized

This is important: Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill was general secretary of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), effectively the highest-ranking priest in the US who is not a bishop, before records of Grindr usage obtained from data brokers was correlated with his apartment, place of work, vacation home, family members’ addresses, and more. […] The … Read More “De-anonymization Story” »

Commercial Location Data Used to Out Priest

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cell phones, data collection, data mining, de-anonymization, geolocation, privacy, Security technology, surveillance, Uncategorized

A Catholic priest was outed through commercially available surveillance data. Vice has a good analysis: The news starkly demonstrates not only the inherent power of location data, but how the chance to wield that power has trickled down from corporations and intelligence agencies to essentially any sort of disgruntled, unscrupulous, or dangerous individual. A growing … Read More “Commercial Location Data Used to Out Priest” »

Collecting and Selling Mobile Phone Location Data

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geolocation, nationalsecuritypolicy, phones, privacy, Security technology, surveillance

The Wall Street Journal has an article about a company called Anomaly Six LLC that has an SDK that’s used by “more than 500 mobile applications.” Through that SDK, the company collects location data from users, which it then sells. Anomaly Six is a federal contractor that provides global-location-data products to branches of the U.S. … Read More “Collecting and Selling Mobile Phone Location Data” »

The NSA on the Risks of Exposing Location Data

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cybersecurity, geolocation, military, nsa, riskassessment, risks, Security technology, smartphones, tracking

The NSA has issued an advisory on the risks of location data. Mitigations reduce, but do not eliminate, location tracking risks in mobile devices. Most users rely on features disabled by such mitigations, making such safeguards impractical. Users should be aware of these risks and take action based on their specific situation and risk tolerance. … Read More “The NSA on the Risks of Exposing Location Data” »

Google Receives Geofence Warrants

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geolocation, google, lawenforcement, nsa, privacy, Security technology, surveillance, tracking

Sometimes it’s hard to tell the corporate surveillance operations from the government ones: Google reportedly has a database called Sensorvault in which it stores location data for millions of devices going back almost a decade. The article is about geofence warrants, where the police go to companies like Google and ask for information about every … Read More “Google Receives Geofence Warrants” »