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Using iPhone? You can now protect your data and location from being tracked by apps on your device with just a tap, thanks to iOS 14.5. You must be tired of ads popping up on your smartphone’s screen whenever you search for a particular product online. That’s how powerful digital marketing has become. Whatever you […]
Apple’s new operating system, dubbed the iOS 13, just got announced at WWDC and one of its primary concerns is users’ privacy. Among all the features the OS offers, another new ability is access to all your location-tracking data. According to a report by 9To5Mac, iOS 13 allows users to view data in the form […]
Free Wi-Fi! — In the age of the internet, everyone loves to hear these two words. But beware! It might follow you wherever you go, even when you are not connected anymore. Nowadays, hundreds and thousands of businesses and public spaces offer “free Wi-Fi hotspots.” You can find them in shopping malls, airports, cafes, restaurants, etc. […]
We might have a hint, but we never let our brain trick us into the fact that real-time tracking has made way past movies. A breaking story by NY Times has uncovered Securus Technologies — a US-based company that runs a service for monitoring calls to prison inmates. The technology can do a lot more than […]
What do you do when you don’t want Google to track your activities and location continuously? Few steps you take in such situations are turning off mobile data and location services. Some people go further down the line and disable apps or remove the carrier SIM cards. What if I tell you that Google can […]
Two researchers have analyzed images Exif metadata included in the photos used by crooks to advertise their products on black marketplaces in the dark web. Darknets are a privileged environment for crooks that intend to develop a prolific business protecting their anonymity, anyway, there are several aspects that they need to consider in order to […]
Good Bye GPS — DARPA to present another position-tracking technology. The U.S government’s Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has prioritized the development of a more dependable and efficient real-time location tracking technology due to the incompetence of GPS in specific situations. The information was made public on Thursday by a document on DARPA’s research projects. […]
A number of states already have laws preventing the police from prying on your phone’s location history without a warrant, but they just got another big boost from a court ruling. Even if it is a vague information like the whereabouts of cell towers you’ve used, a California-based federal judge has determined that cops need […]
Visa, famed payment processing company, will be rolling out its new software with location-tracking capabilities this summer. It will allow banks to automatically know the cardholder’s current location through the location-tracking function present in almost all smartphones. This may sound like the bank becoming your “big brother” however, it will be immensely helpful for cardholders […]