#TikTok Parent #ByteDance Planned To Use TikTok To #Monitor The Physical #Location Of Specific American Citizens
#surveillance #security #app #software #mobile #GPS #smartphone #economy #tracking #news #china
#location
Tech #tool offers #police ‘mass #surveillance on a #budget’
Police have used “Fog Reveal” to search hundreds of billions of records from 250 million #mobile devices, and harnessed the data to create #location analyses known among law enforcement as “patterns of life,” according to thousands of pages of records about the #company.
#gps #spy #tracking #navigation #app #software #fail #problem #smartphone #news #economy
Je découvre https://www.visale.fr qui propose de se porter garant gratuitement pour que les gens de moins de 30 ans puissent devenir locataires. Est-ce que vous connaissez ? Un retour d'expérience, en tant que locataire ou en tant que bailleur ?
How #Tinder became a #weapon in the #Russia -#Ukraine #war 🇷🇺 🇺🇦
Source: https://www.huckmag.com/perspectives/how-tinder-became-a-weapon-in-the-russia-ukraine-war/
Since Tinder shows how far away you are from a match, Sara realised that by creating two fake Tinder accounts and setting the locations to two different areas near the border, she could triangulate the exact locations of her matches. She has so far tipped off the Ukrainian authorities with the details of more than seventy Tinder accounts via an email and Telegram account set up by the Ukrainians to gather information. She has not been told by the Ukrainian authorities how or if the information she’s passed on has been used.
#internet #app #news #military #spy #soldiers #location #smartphone #hack #security
« Une agence nous a foutus à la porte » : les discriminations face au handicap empêchent l’accès au logement
Selon le rapport annuel du Défenseur des droits publié en 2021, le handicap est la première cause de discrimination en France. De jeunes adultes handicapés témoignent des préjugés et de la discrimination systématique des agences et propriétaires lors de leur recherche de logement. Basta a recueilli leurs témoignages. https://basta.media/Les-discriminations-face-au-handicap-acces-au-logement-AAH-une-agence-nous-a-foutus-a-la-port
#Discriminations #Handicap #AAH #Logement #AccèsAuLogement #DroitsHumains #AgencesImmobilieres #Proprietaires #Accessibilite #Antivalidisme #Validisme #Prejuges #Temoignages #Precarite #CautionSolidaire #GarantieLoyerImpaye #Loyers #Location #Locataire #AllocationAdulteHandicape
Nous vendons des maisons - Vous y créez des souvenirs
#immobilier #realestate #maison #appartement #immo #agentimmobilier #agenceimmobiliere #vente #investissement #paris #architecture #investissementimmobilier #achat #home #immobilierdeluxe #location #avendre #france #design #maisonavendre #investir #re #realestateagent #achatimmobilier #decoration #entrepreneur #venteimmobiliere #immobilierparis #projetimmobilier #bhfyp
A 19-year-old built a flight-tracking #Twitter #bot. Elon #Musk tried to pay him to stop.
source: https://www.protocol.com/elon-musk-flight-tracker
The #conversation continued for a few more messages. Musk asked Sweeney how much he made off the Twitter accounts, which Sweeney said was no more than $20 a month. Then Elon Musk made his own offer: $5,000 to delete the #account and help the billionaire keep “crazy people” from #tracking his #location.
I'm not telling you this so you know how to blackmail Elon.
I think it would be more appropriate to welcome the rich at the airport with signs that they produce the most #emissions and are therefore a #problem for the #future of the #planet.
#environment #humanity #warming #flight #news #information #fff
Life360 Says It Will Stop Selling Precise Location Data: Nice Of Them, But Shows The Value Of Your Location Data
In December, The Markup revealed that Life360 was one of the largest sources of raw location data for the industry. Its customers included X-Mode, a location data broker that sold data to U.S. military contractors; SafeGraph, a company that Sen. Ron Wyden has flagged as a “data broker of concern”; and Cuebiq, one of the largest location data brokers in the industry. It needed for them to be publicly shamed before this change was made. No-one pays this amount of money for data without having some really good use for it.
In 2020, location data sales made up nearly 20 percent of Life360’s revenue, netting the company $16 million, according to its financial records. It made an additional $6 million through its deal with Arity, a “mobility data and analytics” firm owned by Allstate, which is disclosed as a data partner in Life360’s privacy policy.
I’ll bet that many large-scale free services fund their services through some or other sale of their user data.
See https://themarkup.org/privacy/2022/01/27/life360-says-it-will-stop-selling-precise-location-data
#technology #privacy #location
#Blog, ##location, ##privacy, ##technology
The Popular #Family Safety #App #Life360 Is Selling Precise #Location #Data on Its Tens of Millions of Users
The Life360 CEO said that the company implemented a policy to prohibit the selling or marketing of Life360’s data to any government agencies to be used for a law enforcement purpose in 2020, though the company has been selling data since at least 2016.
#security #privacy #economy #software #news #problem #bigdata
Salut all.
Je suis attendu en formation près de #Lyon pendant 2 semaines du 25/10 au 05/11.
Je cherche un #hébergement pour cette période aux alentours du lieu de formation (Vaulx-en-Velin, Villeurbanne...)
Si vous connaissez des #gites, #appartements ou #chambres en sous-location, ou même des gens cools pour faire du #couchsurfing, j'étudie toute proposition.
Merci par avance de faire tourner, et continuons en mp si vous avez des propositions.
#aide #hebergement #location #fr #vaulx-en-velin #villeurbanne #69
We asked a passenger who belonged there what sort of place it was. “Well,” said he, after considering, and with the air of one who wishes to take time and be accurate, “It’s a hell of a place.” A description which was photographic for exactness.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Life on the Mississippi, ch. 30 (1883)
#quotation #quote #location #travel
More notes and sourcing on WIST: https://wist.info/twain-mark/48697/
Top U.S. #Catholic #Church official resigns after #cellphone #data used to #track him on #Grindr and to #gay bars
source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2021/07/20/bishop-misconduct-resign-burrill/
The resignation stemmed from reporting in the #Pillar, an online newsletter that reports on the Catholic Church. Tuesday afternoon, after Burrill’s resignation became public, the Pillar reported that it had obtained information based on the data Grindr collects from its users, and hired an independent firm to authenticate it.
Which finally debunked the saying, "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear."
#economy #bigdata #location #tracking #gps #surveillance #smartphone #problem #privacy #religion #fail #ethics #moral #humanrights #news #security #app #internet
‘Apple is eating our lunch’: #Google employees admit in lawsuit that the company made it nearly impossible for users to keep their #location #private
Google continued collecting location data even when users turned off various location-sharing #settings, made popular #privacy settings harder to find, and even pressured LG and other phone makers into hiding settings precisely because users liked them, according to the documents.
#fail #smartphone #phone #mobile #Android #news #configuration #spy #surveillance #gps
44 bits
So, a redditor tracked down the location of a monolith placed in the Utah desert a few years ago, recently discovered by authorities, who did not disclose where it was.[1]
I looked at rock type (Sandstone), color (red and white - no black streaks like found on higher cliffs in Utah), shape (more rounded indicating a more exposed area and erosion), the texture of the canyon floor (flat rock vs sloped indicating higher up in a watershed with infrequent water), and the larger cliff/mesa in the upper background of one of the photos. I took all that and lined it up with the flight time and flight path of the helicopter - earlier in the morning taking off from Monticello, UT and flying almost directly north before going off radar (usually indicating it dropped below radar scan altitude. From there, I know I am looking for a south/east facing canyon with rounded red/white rock, most likely close to the base of a larger cliff/mesa, most likely closer to the top of a watershed, and with a suitable flat area for an AS350 helicopter to land. Took about 30 minutes of random checks around the Green River/Colorado River junction before finding similar terrain. From there it took another 15 minutes to find the exact canyon. Yes... I'm a freak.
-- /u/Bear__Fucker @ reddit
It's relatively well known that 33 distinct bits is enough to uniquely identify any individual person now alive on Earth.[2]
Geospatially, assuming 10m resolution, 44 bits is enough to identify any unique location on Earth's land surface. 46 bits buys you the oceans as well.
Searching for a ~1m^2^ monolith visually within a 10m^2^ square is reasonable.
GNU units:
You have: ln((.3 * 4 * (earthradius^2) * pi)/10m^2)/ln(2)
Definition: 43.798784
You have: ln((1 * 4 * (earthradius^2) * pi)/10m^2)/ln(2)
Definition: 45.535749
49 bits gives 1m accuracy, 63 bits 1cm, 69 bits 1mm. Anywhere on Earth, land or sea.
For comparison, cellphone positioning accuracy is typically 8--600m:
- 3G iPhone w/ A-GPS ~ 8 meters
- 3G iPhone w/ wifi ~ 74 meters
- 3G iPhone w/ Cellular positioning ~ 600 meters
https://communityhealthmaps.nlm.nih.gov/2014/07/07/how-accurate-is-the-gps-on-my-smart-phone-part-2/
https://www.gps.gov/systems/gps/performance/accuracy/
The power of disparate data traces to rapidly narrow down search spaces on a specific item, individual, or location, is what makes #BigData aggreggation so powerful, and terrifying.
Notes:
https://old.reddit.com/r/geoguessr/comments/jzw628/help_me_find_this_obelisk_in_remote_utah/gdfbzee/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25199879
https://web.archive.org/web/20160304012305/33bits.org/about/
#privacy4 #location #33bits #44bits #data #deanonimization #DataAreLiability #surveillance #SurveillanceState #SurveillanceCapitalism