Google location data tracking saw innocent cyclist become key suspect in burglary

https://9to5google.com/2020/03/09/google-location-data-cyclist-burglary

https://fossbytes.com/how-google-turned-innocent-biker-into-thievery-suspect


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NSA urges military personnel to turn off cellphone location data

The National Security Agency is urging US military and intelligence personnel to turn off location-sharing services on their cellphones to prevent security breaches.

The secretive intelligence agency warned in a bulletin Tuesday that the common app feature can pose a real threat to national security, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Location-sharing can be critical for the function of apps like Google Maps, but the information it collects about users’ whereabouts is also collected by tech companies that then sell the anonymized data to marketers and advertisers.

https://nypost.com/2020/08/04/nsa-presses-military-to-turn-off-cell-phone-location-data/

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How the NSA Says You Can Limit Location Data Exposure

The mitigations are designed for government officials, but the advice itself can be useful for many more people.

Location data can be one of the most valuable pieces of information for an attacker, and also arguably one of the hardest to protect. Smartphones are constantly providing such data through apps, the phone's operating system itself, or in virtue of just using telecommunications networks or being near other devices.

With that in mind, the National Security Agency (NSA) on Tuesday published its own guidelines for limiting the exposure of location data. The guidelines are geared more for government officials, but the advice itself can be useful for those hoping to stop sending so much location data to tech companies, ad firms, or apps that may then expose it later.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v7gxv3/nsa-location-data-privacy

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Los Angeles settles Weather Channel lawsuit, lets it keep selling location data to advertisers

The app will change how it notifies users about location-tracking

Los Angeles has settled its lawsuit against the operator of The Weather Channel app. The city filed litigation against the company in 2019, alleging that the app misled millions of people into granting access to their personal location data and sold that data to third parties.

While IBM is celebrating this moment by calling those original claims “baseless” in a statement to The Verge, it sounds like they were largely true — since the only thing the settlement requires is for The Weather Channel to proactively warn users that yes, your location data is for sale.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/19/21376217/los-angeles-the-weather-channel-app-lawsuit-settlement-location-data-selling

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How Your Phone Is Used to Track You, and What You Can Do About It

Smartphone location data, often used by marketers, has been useful for studying the spread of the coronavirus. But the information raises troubling privacy questions.

As researchers and journalists try to understand how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting people’s behavior, they have repeatedly relied on location information from smartphones. The data allows for an expansive look at the movements of millions of people, but it raises troublesome questions about privacy.

In several articles, The New York Times has used location data provided by a company called Cuebiq, which analyzes data for advertisers and marketers. This data comes from smartphone users who have agreed to share their locations with certain apps, such as ones that provide weather alerts or information on local gas stations.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/technology/smartphone-location-tracking-opt-out.html

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Private Intel Firm Buys Location Data to Track People to their 'Doorstep'

The data comes from hundreds of ordinary apps installed on peoples’ phones around the world.

A threat intelligence firm called HYAS, a private company that tries to prevent or investigates hacks against its clients, is buying location data harvested from ordinary apps installed on peoples' phones around the world, and using it to unmask hackers. The company is a business, not a law enforcement agency, and claims to be able to track people to their "doorstep."

The news highlights the complex supply chain and sale of location data, traveling from apps whose users are in some cases unaware that the software is selling their location, through to data brokers, and finally to end clients who use the data itself. The news also shows that while some location firms repeatedly reassure the public that their data is focused on the high level, aggregated, pseudonymous tracking of groups of people, some companies do buy and use location data from a largely unregulated market explicitly for the purpose of identifying specific individuals.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qj454d/private-intelligence-location-data-xmode-hyas

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All the ways your Phone tracks your location.

Your phone (Android or iPhone) is tracking your location even if you disable Location Services, turn on airplane mode, and disable Bluetooth. Learn how to stop it once and for all.

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Your phone is LISTENING to you - Ultrasonic cross device tracking

Ultrasonic cross-device tracking uses an inaudible, high-frequency sounds to link your devices − TVs, phones, tablets and PCs − so that advertisers can better track you.

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How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps

A Muslim prayer app with over 98 million downloads is one of the apps connected to a wide-ranging supply chain that sends ordinary people's personal data to brokers, contractors, and the military.

The U.S. military is buying the granular movement data of people around the world, harvested from innocuous-seeming apps, Motherboard has learned. The most popular app among a group Motherboard analyzed connected to this sort of data sale is a Muslim prayer and Quran app that has more than 98 million downloads worldwide. Others include a Muslim dating app, a popular Craigslist app, an app for following storms, and a "level" app that can be used to help, for example, install shelves in a bedroom.

Through public records, interviews with developers, and technical analysis, Motherboard uncovered two separate, parallel data streams that the U.S. military uses, or has used, to obtain location data. One relies on a company called Babel Street, which creates a product called Locate X. U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), a branch of the military tasked with counterterrorism, counterinsurgency, and special reconnaissance, bought access to Locate X to assist on overseas special forces operations. The other stream is through a company called X-Mode, which obtains location data directly from apps, then sells that data to contractors, and by extension, the military.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgqm5x/us-military-location-data-xmode-locate-x


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