FBI Tracking Device
ifixit zeigt Fotos eines GPS Tracking Device was das FBI jüngst unter dem Auto der Tierrechtlerin Kathy Thomas angebacht hatte.
Archived entries for GPS
The Nuclear Waste Of The Digital Age
Sieht man sich die Diskussion in den Medien an hat er nicht ganz unrecht:
When Sony’s PlayStation disaster distracted us from Apple’s geolocation fiasco, we lost much more than 77 million accounts’ worth of data. We lost a tremendous learning opportunity, a chance to focus on the greatest privacy question of our time, or perhaps any time:
Should we let corporations and governments know where we are all the time?
Cell phone companies know where we are all the time. We also know grocery stores track what we eat and that governments know when we drive through toll booths.
The problem is this: We’ve never talked about whether this is a good or a bad idea. We are all being tracked now, and our whereabouts logged. But what should we do about it?
TomTom verkauft Bewegungsdaten
TomTom hat seine gespeicherten Verkehrsdaten an die niederländische Regierung verkauft.
Spannend an der Geschichte fand ich eine Bemerkung in the Register:
As more smartphones offer GPS navigation service, TomTom has been forced to compensate for declining profit by increasing sales in other areas, including the selling of traffic data.
Denn am Ende des Tages sind all die Daten die wir in Sozialen Netzwerken, bei Google, Apple, oder wo auch immer hinterlassen spätestens dann bares Geld wenn das Kerngeschäft nicht mehr genug abwirft.
Positioning with Geolocation
Ein Artikel auf mobile.tuts+ erklärt die ersten Schritte der Nutzung von Geolocation in Smartphones.
- Browser geolocation and how it works
- How Asynchronous function calls work
- How to use the getCurrentPosition API
- What’s in geolocation data
- How to fall back on IP address based geolocation when browsers don’t provide native support
- How to display a map using geolocation data
- How to use the watchPosition and clearWatch APIs
GPS Tracking in den USA
Wow! Krasse Zahlen die die Elektronic Frontier Foundation in ihrem Blog postet.
Sprint received over 8 million requests for its customers’ information in the past 13 months. That doesn’t count requests for basic identification and billing information, or wiretapping requests, or requests to monitor who is calling who, or even requests for less-precise location data based on which cell phone towers a cell phone was in contact with. That’s just GPS. And, that’s not including legal requests from civil litigants, or from foreign intelligence investigators. That’s just law enforcement. And, that’s not counting the few other major cell phone carriers like AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile. That’s just Sprint.