"Spies Can Track You Just By Watching Your Phone's Power Use"

[Jimbillroo Digital]

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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.

 

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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. That data, unlike GPS or Wi-Fi location tracking, is freely available to any installed app without a requirement to ask the user’s permission. That means it could represent a new method of stealthily determining a user’s movements with as much as 90 percent accuracy—though for now the method only really works when trying to differentiate between a certain number of pre-measured routes.

 

Link to original article: http://ow.ly/JmlI7.

News article on Wired.com.

[Arty]

Not Suprised

I already thought google/apple were logging locations...

ik apple is cause in settings it says where u been and how many times

what time a day etc

btw it is privacy>location services>Frequent Locations

[geogga]

Wow...this is taking it to a new level. I don't really care about getting tracked and spied on but the fact that they can locate you via power usage is just wack.

[Tonylu1595]

Next: They track you by what case you have on. 

[Jimbillroo Digital]

Next: They track you by what case you have on. 

 

That is actually pretty possible. Like those charge cases that connect to the phone.

[IvIast3r]

Next: They track you by what case you have on. 

nah its the power button or speakers

[Jimbillroo Digital]

On 2/21/2015 at 2:00 AM, IvIast3r said:

nah its the power button or speakers

 

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