When Apple sneezes, the world takes interest in ear-nose-throat medicine. So upon learning that their iPhones have been building a bloated file of location data, consumers started wondering if mobile service also means mobile …
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The Brave New World of Mobile Phone Privacy
May 21st, 2011 
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Tags: apple, bloated-file, consumers-started, location-data, takes-interest, the-world, upon-learning, wondering-if-mobile, world 
No Comments »Data Pirates (AKA Cops) Can Hack Your Cell Phone
April 24th, 2011 jedwan By now, many of you may have heard about iPhone tracking and recording your location data, but is…
S.D.Tex.: Cell phone location data subject to Fourth Amendment …
November 3rd, 2010 admin FourthAmendment.com covers a decision out of the Southern District of Texas that held that cell phone location data is subject to the Fourth Amendment because.
Posted in Cell Phone Tags: Cell Phone, decision-out, fourth, fourth-amendment, location-data, southern, southern-district, texas No Comments »Study: select Android apps sharing data without user notification
October 2nd, 2010 jedwan Come one, come all — let’s gather and act shocked, shall we? It’s no secret that Google’s Android Market is far easier to penetrate than Apple’s App Store , which is most definitely a double-edged sword. On one hand, you aren’t stuck waiting a lifetime for Apple to approve a perfectly sound app; on the other, you may end up accidentally downloading some Nazi themes that scar you for life. A curious team of scientists from Intel Labs, Penn State and Duke University recently utilized a so-called TaintDroid extension in order to log and monitor the actions of 30 Android apps — 30 that were picked from the 358 most popular. Their findings? That half of their sample (15, if you’re rusty in the math department) shared location information and / or other unique identifiers (IMEI numbers, phone numbers, SIM numbers, etc.) with advertisers. Making matters worse, those 15 didn’t actually inform end-users that data was being shared, and some of ‘em beamed out information while applications were dormant. Unfortunately for us all, the researchers didn’t bother to rat out the 15 evil apps mentioned here, so good luck resting easy knowing that your library of popular apps could be spying on you right now. Update : A Google spokesperson pinged up with an official response to the study, and you can peek it after the break. Update 2 : Looks as if the full study ( PDF ) has been outed, with the 30 total apps named. Here they are: The Weather Channel, Cestos, Solitaire, Movies, Babble, Manga Browser, Bump, Wertago, Antivirus, ABC – Animals, Traffic Jam, Hearts, Blackjack, Horoscope, 3001 Wisdom Quotes Lite, Yellow Pages, Dastelefonbuch, Astrid, BBC News Live Stream, Ringtones, Layer, Knocking, Barcode Scanner, Coupons, Trapster, Spongebob Slide, ProBasketBall, MySpace, ixMAT, and Evernote. Thanks, Jordan! Continue reading Study: select Android apps sharing data without user notification Study: select Android apps sharing data without user notification originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 30 Sep 2010 16:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Posted in att, engadget Tags: animals, data, engadget, googleandroid, location, location-data, pdf, study, survey, taintdroid, unique, weather No Comments »The Crime Report » Archive » Prosecutors May Need Probable Cause …
September 8th, 2010 jedwan In the first appellate ruling on a cutting-edge privacy issue, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit declared that cell phone location data may trigger Fourth Amendment concerns and that prosecutors demanding access to such …
A Judge With Common Sense Says Cellphone Tracking Is as Intrusive …
August 31st, 2010 admin A NY state judge has said that looking up a person’s movements via cell phone location data is just as intrusive as GPS tracking. Bless him.
Slashgeo | Cell Phone Data Predicts Movement Patterns
February 26th, 2010 jedwan Slashdot runs this discussion: Cell Phone Data Predicts Movement Patterns. Their summary: “In a study published in Science, researchers examined customer location data culled from cellular service providers. By looking at how customers …
Posted in att, Cell Phone Tags: att, Cell Phone, cellular-service, examined-customer, how-customers, location-data, looking-at-how, phone, predicts, predicts-movement, science, study-published No Comments »How Does the E911 Work for Wireless Cell Phones? | Hydrogen …
July 9th, 2009 jedwan Many people are getting rid of their traditional land line phones for a wireless cell phones, which is antiquating the existing 9-1-1 emergency system in the.
