Internet, Mobile Pc - Thursday, May 26, 2011 20:52 - 0 Comments

How services use mobile devices to track you

You’ve probably seen those cop shows where suspects are tracked down by their cell’s proximity to cellular towers (or through GPS data on GPS-equipped devices). But geolocation technology doesn’t stop there. In his testimony, Soltani identified two additional means of pinpointing a mobile device’s whereabouts both of which depend on databases maintained by little-known entities that also store information transmitted by the device. Continue…