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Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy
Every minute of every day, everywhere on the planet, dozens of companies — largely unregulated, little scrutinized — are #logging the #movements of tens of millions of #people with #mobile #phones and storing the information in gigantic #data #files. The Times #Privacy #Project obtained one such file, by far the largest and most sensitive ever to be reviewed by journalists. It holds more than 50 billion location pings from the phones of more than 12 million Americans as they moved through several major cities, including Washington, New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Each piece of #information in this file represents the precise location of a single #smartphone over a period of several months in 2016 and 2017. The data was provided to Times Opinion by sources who asked to remain anonymous because they were not authorized to share it and could face severe penalties for doing so. The sources of the information said they had grown alarmed about how it might be abused and urgently wanted to inform the public and lawmakers.
After spending months sifting through the data, tracking the movements of people across the country and speaking with dozens of data companies, technologists, lawyers and academics who study this field, we feel the same sense of alarm. In the cities that the data file covers, it tracks people from nearly every neighborhood and block, whether they live in mobile homes in Alexandria, Va., or luxury towers in Manhattan.
One search turned up more than a dozen people visiting the Playboy Mansion, some overnight. Without much effort we spotted visitors to the estates of Johnny Depp, Tiger Woods and Arnold Schwarzenegger, connecting the devices’ owners to the residences indefinitely.
If you lived in one of the cities the #dataset covers and use #apps that share your# location — anything from weather apps to local news apps to coupon savers — you could be in there, too.
If you could see the full trove, you might never use your phone the same way again.
Read more:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/location-tracking-cell-phone.html
#surveillance #privacy #why #thinkabout
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Every minute of every day, everywhere on the planet, dozens of companies — largely unregulated, little scrutinized — are #logging the #movements of tens of millions of #people with #mobile #phones and storing the information in gigantic #data #files. The Times #Privacy #Project obtained one such file, by far the largest and most sensitive ever to be reviewed by journalists. It holds more than 50 billion location pings from the phones of more than 12 million Americans as they moved through several major cities, including Washington, New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Each piece of #information in this file represents the precise location of a single #smartphone over a period of several months in 2016 and 2017. The data was provided to Times Opinion by sources who asked to remain anonymous because they were not authorized to share it and could face severe penalties for doing so. The sources of the information said they had grown alarmed about how it might be abused and urgently wanted to inform the public and lawmakers.
After spending months sifting through the data, tracking the movements of people across the country and speaking with dozens of data companies, technologists, lawyers and academics who study this field, we feel the same sense of alarm. In the cities that the data file covers, it tracks people from nearly every neighborhood and block, whether they live in mobile homes in Alexandria, Va., or luxury towers in Manhattan.
One search turned up more than a dozen people visiting the Playboy Mansion, some overnight. Without much effort we spotted visitors to the estates of Johnny Depp, Tiger Woods and Arnold Schwarzenegger, connecting the devices’ owners to the residences indefinitely.
If you lived in one of the cities the #dataset covers and use #apps that share your# location — anything from weather apps to local news apps to coupon savers — you could be in there, too.
If you could see the full trove, you might never use your phone the same way again.
Read more:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/location-tracking-cell-phone.html
#surveillance #privacy #why #thinkabout
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KDE Connect is an app that makes it easy to connect your DeGoogled phone and/or Linux Phone to your Linux laptop using your phone's hot spot, or any network.
KDE Connect can do these things:
- Share files
- Share clipboard
- Control Slideshows w/phone
- Send/Receive texts on laptop
(Using KDE Connect
Taskbar Indicator)
- Control laptop media player
- Move laptop mouse pointer
1. Install KDE Connect on phone
Use KDEConnect on F-Droid
2. Install on laptop
For Debian based distros:
On your laptop firewall, make sure you open ports that KDE Connect uses.
To do this, open up terminal and enter these commands:
3. Connect both devices
- Connect both to the same network
- Open app on both devices
- Find and pair devices
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#KDEConnect #transfer #Files #share
KDE Connect is an app that makes it easy to connect your DeGoogled phone and/or Linux Phone to your Linux laptop using your phone's hot spot, or any network.
KDE Connect can do these things:
- Share files
- Share clipboard
- Control Slideshows w/phone
- Send/Receive texts on laptop
(Using KDE Connect
Taskbar Indicator)
- Control laptop media player
- Move laptop mouse pointer
1. Install KDE Connect on phone
Use KDEConnect on F-Droid
2. Install on laptop
For Debian based distros:
sudo apt install kdeconnectOn your laptop firewall, make sure you open ports that KDE Connect uses.
To do this, open up terminal and enter these commands:
sudo ufw allow 1714:1764/udp
sudo ufw allow 1714:1764/tcp
sudo ufw reload3. Connect both devices
- Connect both to the same network
- Open app on both devices
- Find and pair devices
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#KDEConnect #transfer #Files #share