Your smartphone location data is being sold

Not suprised. Everything is being sold (your data is a goldmine for companies)
 
Hopefully keeping the GPS thingy off most of the time limits, what they can collect - tho I am not totally confident it does.
 
elf_lord_ZC5 said:
Hopefully keeping the GPS thingy off most of the time limits, what they can collect - tho I am not totally confident it does.
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Vodacom etc still tracks your phone even if off. (They might not sell your location, but who knows)
 
Scooby_Doo said:
Reference?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_tracking
The location of a mobile phone can be determined using the service provider's network infrastructure. The advantage of network-based techniques, from a service provider's point of view, is that they can be implemented non-intrusively without affecting handsets. Network-based techniques were developed many years prior to the widespread availability of GPS on handsets. (See US 5519760, issued 21 May 1996 for one of the first works relating to this.[3])
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[video=youtube;S0G6mUyIgyg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0G6mUyIgyg[/video]
 
Scooby_Doo said:
Sure but the original statement was that your phone can be tracked even when off.

I am skeptical of the off part.
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If it's off, then the network might have your last known location, but will not know where you are if you should have moved.
If only the GPS and wifi is switched off, then they can still get an estimated location by using the mobile network.
 
Nod said:
If it's off, then the network might have your last known location, but will not know where you are if you should have moved.
If only the GPS and wifi is switched off, then they can still get an estimated location by using the mobile network.
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It used to be the case.

By September 2004, a new NSA technique enabled the agency to find cellphones even when they were turned off. JSOC troops called this “The Find,” and it gave them thousands of new targets, including members of a burgeoning al-Qaeda-sponsored insurgency in Iraq, according to members of the unit.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...c93cf4-f0b1-11e2-bed3-b9b6fe264871_story.html
 
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