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

[Geoff Shively]

Gnar evil shenenegains.

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.

Seems there are 2 different kinds of tracking going on here, yea?

1) The cell site data for when a number is active/provisioned for a
site/service.

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?








On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 2:42 AM, Danny O'Brien <danny at spesh.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > 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).
> >
> > http://www.zeit.de/datenschutz/malte-spitz-vorratsdaten
> >
> > if you want to read the original article, it is here:
> >
> >
> http://www.zeit.de/digital/datenschutz/2011-03/data-protection-malte-spitz
> >
> > and here is an article about the original article in the New York Times:
> >
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/26/business/media/26privacy.html
> >
> > 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.
>
> 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).
>
>
> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Telecommunications_data_retention
>
> 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).
>
> 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
>
> d.
>
>
>
> >
> > But now it's back to the same old story, so let's see where it goes.
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