- Oct 6, 2014
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- http://www.wired.com/2015/02/powerspy-phone-tracking/
Smartphone users might balk at letting a random app like Candy Crush or Shazam track their every move via GPS. But researchers have found that Android phones reveal information about your location to every app on your device through a different, unlikely data leak: the phone’s power consumption.
Researchers at Stanford University and Israel’s defense research group Rafael have created a technique they call PowerSpy, which they say can gather information about an Android phone’s geolocation merely by tracking its power use over time.
Read Full Article over here.
http://www.wired.com/2015/02/powerspy-phone-tracking/
Also,
PowerSpy is just one of several ways people can use phone data and sensors in unexpected ways to compromise user privacy. Past examples include SurroundSense [pdf attached], a way to use nearby sound and light to track mobile phones, and the Gyrophone study, which demonstrated how to eavesdrop on conversations and identify individual speakers by using the gyroscopes on smartphones.
Source:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/...d-phones-battery-use-can-reveal-user-location
One thing that crosses my mind after knowing this is, "Now What?"
Researchers at Stanford University and Israel’s defense research group Rafael have created a technique they call PowerSpy, which they say can gather information about an Android phone’s geolocation merely by tracking its power use over time.
Read Full Article over here.
http://www.wired.com/2015/02/powerspy-phone-tracking/
Also,
PowerSpy is just one of several ways people can use phone data and sensors in unexpected ways to compromise user privacy. Past examples include SurroundSense [pdf attached], a way to use nearby sound and light to track mobile phones, and the Gyrophone study, which demonstrated how to eavesdrop on conversations and identify individual speakers by using the gyroscopes on smartphones.
Source:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/...d-phones-battery-use-can-reveal-user-location
One thing that crosses my mind after knowing this is, "Now What?"
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