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Your mobile phone can give away your location, even if you tell it not to

  • Written by Guevara Noubir, Professor of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University
Fitness trackers report their location and map the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert.Screenshot of Strava Heat Map

U.S. military officials were recently caught off guard by revelations that servicemembers’ digital fitness trackers were storing the locations of their workouts – including at or near military bases and clandestine...

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