Tag: location

• Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location

  January 9, 2025

  This article was produced with support from WIRED. https://www.404media.co/candy-crush-tinder-myfitnesspal-see-the-thousands-of-apps-hijacked-to-spy-on-your-location/ more ›

• Building a Large Geospatial Model to Achieve Spatial Intelligence Eric Brachmann and Victor Adrian Prisacariu

  November 20, 2024

  Niantic has trained more than 50 million neural nets to date, where multiple networks can contribute to a single location. All these networks combined comprise over 150 trillion parameters optimized… more ›

• They Stormed the Capitol. Their Apps Tracked Them.

  February 10, 2021

  In 2019, a source came to us with a digital file containing the precise locations of more than 12 million individual smartphones for several months in 2016 and 2017. The… more ›

• How Your Phone Betrays Democracy

  December 25, 2019

  In footage from drones hovering above, the nighttime streets of Hong Kong look almost incandescent, a constellation of tens of thousands of cellphone flashlights, swaying in unison. Each twinkle is… more ›

• Uber drivers in Lagos are using a fake GPS app to…

  January 21, 2018

  Uber drivers in Lagos are using a fake GPS app to inflate rider fares » Some Uber drivers in Lagos have been using a fake GPS itinerary app to illicitly… more ›

• Google collects Android users’ locations even when…

  November 22, 2017

  Google collects Android users’ locations even when location services are disabled » Many people realize that smartphones track their locations. But what if you actively turn off location services, haven’t… more ›