[Noisebridge-discuss] Interactive mapping of your cellphone tracking you

[Geoff Shively]

To follow up, here's a message from the crashspace list today with
info on the iOS tracking data being stored in consolidated.db


---------- CRASHspace Discussion List ----------
From: Theron Trowbridge
Date: Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Subject: [crash] iOS 4 Devices Tracking Loation
To: crashspace


The headline is (probably) misleading, but at Where today a couple
folks will announce that they found a file being created on iPhones
and iPads that log location information.  I could see this being handy
for the "find my iPhone" app
(http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/find-my-iphone.html), but if
Apple starts using - or selling - this information, that's a little
scary.

http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/04/apple-location-tracking.html

Per the O'Reilly article, the file is called consolidated.db.  They
have a link to a an application that can read this data:

http://petewarden.github.com/iPhoneTracker/

Since the file gets backed up, it should be easy to get to.

-Theron
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On Tuesday, March 29, 2011, Geoff Shively <gshively at gmail.com> wrote:
> Gnar evil shenenegains.
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> Would be lovely to spoof the data so that the logs show frequent journeys to summit of Mt Everest or across large bodies of water.
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> Seems there are 2 different kinds of tracking going on here, yea?
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> 1) The cell site data for when a number is active/provisioned for a site/service.
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> 2) Device location data (in case of iPhone/mobileMe) when the location is stored on the phone and then requested remotely. Is this the same for Android?
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> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 2:42 AM, Danny O'Brien <danny at spesh.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:
>> This guy sued his cellphone company (in Germany) and forced them to hand over
>> six months of tracking data.  All cellphone companies record the location of
>> all cellphones at all times, since about 2004 in the US.
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>> He worked with the Zeit newspaper to publish this data online and they created
>> an interactive map display, which is in German but you can play with it anyway
>> - it shows his location in the center, shows six months below (day by day) and
>> you can press Play and adjust the speed next to the play button
>> (Geschwindigkeit).
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>> http://www.zeit.de/datenschutz/malte-spitz-vorratsdaten
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>> if you want to read the original article, it is here:
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>> http://www.zeit.de/digital/datenschutz/2011-03/data-protection-malte-spitz
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>> and here is an article about the original article in the New York Times:
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>> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/26/business/media/26privacy.html
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>> Keep in mind that Germany has some pretty strict privacy laws and data
>> collection laws which limit the government's ability to spy on people, because
>> after World War 2 there was a problem with a big-brother style government
>> literally spying on people's every move (in East Germany) and miraculously
>> people seem to have learned a lesson from that, for a while.
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> Yeah, though note that EU-wide there are mandatory statutory
> requirements for ISPs and telcos to store data (including location
> data) for 6 months to two years. I believe the national implementation
> of this directive was challenged in Germany and found
> unconstitutional, but I haven't been following the story recently. (EU
> directives are enforced by "transposing" them into local national
> law).
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> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Telecommunications_data_retention
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> There's no such requirement in the US, but law enforcement is
> constantly pushing for it. (And there's no broad law that says that
> companies *shouldn't* keep this data, either).
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> Declan McCullagh is one journalist who tracks the Justice department's
> advocacy for this law here:
> http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20032153-281.html?tag=mncol
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> d.
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>> But now it's back to the same old story, so let's see where it goes.
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