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| Author: | pcernie [ Thu Jan 21, 2016 10:10 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Shops can track you via your smartphone |
Shops can track you via your smartphone, privacy watchdog warns | Technology | The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2 ... hdog-warns Good, I was finding there just weren't enough forms of surveillance in society. |
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| Author: | timark_uk [ Thu Jan 21, 2016 10:15 pm ] | |||||||||
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| Author: | pcernie [ Thu Jan 21, 2016 10:44 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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Yeah, that threw me as well. I always assumed GPS was like your network connection. Can't say I'm happy with the discovery... it's news to me at least! |
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| Author: | jonbwfc [ Thu Jan 21, 2016 11:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Shops can track you via your smartphone |
I believe on quite a lot of phones you can switch wifi triangulation off by one means or other. On an iPhone if you switch location services off that would do so. Flight mode would do so obviously but that's a bit overkill. |
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| Author: | Spreadie [ Fri Jan 22, 2016 8:18 am ] | |||||||||
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No, they can't. I only turn location/data/wifi on when I need them - longer lasting battery ftw. |
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| Author: | pcernie [ Fri Jan 22, 2016 10:22 am ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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Yeah, I've a series of 'buttons', but I never knew GPS ran off Wi-Fi even when it's not activated. |
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| Author: | cloaked_wolf [ Fri Jan 22, 2016 12:09 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Shops can track you via your smartphone | |||||||||
Very frustrating as I normally switch off wifi when I'm out and about. I've been in places where data signal is so poor it drops but I'm still able to use google maps to a tiny degree. |
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| Author: | davrosG5 [ Fri Jan 22, 2016 12:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Shops can track you via your smartphone |
I found under Win 10 Mobile that the default behaviour if you switch off WiFi is for it to come back on automatically after an hour. You need to fiddle with the settings so make 'Off' mean 'Off until I tell you otherwise'. Note entirely sure what it's doing when it says it's off of course. |
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| Author: | l3v1ck [ Tue Jan 26, 2016 9:22 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Shops can track you via your smartphone |
The spying I expect. What's is news to me is that is that WiFi is on even when it's off. I always have mobile data, WiFi and Bluetooth turned off unless I'm using them. |
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| Author: | big_D [ Wed Jan 27, 2016 7:53 am ] | |||||||||
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It doesn't. When GPS is turned off, it is turned off. But phones, tablets and PCs have been using Wi-Fi assist to get rough positioning from wi-fi points for about a decade now. That is what Google got in trouble for, with their Google Streetview cars. They were snooping Wi-Fi networks and storing not just SSIDs, but also unencrypted traffic. They know the location and triangulation of Wi-Fi points in an area (there are other companies that offer similar services for Apple, Microsoft etc.), so by seeing which access points are visible and how strong the signals are, they can guess at your rough location, even if GPS is turned off. Therefore you also need to turn off Wi-Fi (and Bluetooth), if you really don't want them to be able to track you - although the telco and the police (with a warrant), will still be able to track you based on cell towers. |
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| Author: | pcernie [ Wed Jan 27, 2016 8:45 am ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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Brevity typing there mate 
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| Author: | paulzolo [ Wed Jan 27, 2016 1:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Shops can track you via your smartphone |
http://www.amazon.com/FawkesBOX-Smart-p ... B00QQUQTV2 |
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| Author: | pcernie [ Wed Jan 27, 2016 9:19 pm ] | |||||||||
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