iPhone app developer Aaron Parecki from Portland let his mobile phone track him for a three-year project. Using the data, he has created stunning colour maps revealing his every move.
Benjamin Wittes and Jane Chong examine how the law will respond as we become more cyborg-like, and the divide between human and machine becomes ever-more unstable. In particular, they consider how the law of surveillance will shift as we develop from humans who use machines into humans who partially are machines or, at least, who depend on machines pervasively for our most human-like activities.
For Advertisers, One Mobile User Has Previously Often Looked Like Two
Advertisers can now target their Facebook ads based on how strong someone’s phone signal is.
Google, Facebook, and a bunch of startups are finding new ways to collect data for advertisers
The modern smartphone is 7 years old and yet, when it comes to designing mobile applications, we are still barely scratching the surface. Today we’ll see how harnessing technology already embedded in a phone can unleash great potential.
Hiding in Foursquare’s revamped mobile app is a feature some users might find creepy: It tracks your every movement, even when the app is closed.
In the age of surveillance paranoia, most smartphone users know better than to give a random app or website permission to use their device’s microphone. But researchers have found there’s another, little-considered sensor in modern phones that can also listen in on their conversations. And it doesn’t even need to ask.
The mobile ad ecosystem is in “chaos,” and cross-device tracking aims to make sense of it. Here, we aim to make sense of cross-device tracking.
The pro-privacy Blackphone, a hardened Android smartphone that focuses on making rigorous security features more accessible to a general phone user, has started shipping to its first wave of buyers.
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