Security researcher Ahmed Hassan has shown that spoofing the Android’s “People Nearby” feature allows him to pinpoint the physical location of Telegram users: Using readily available software and a rooted Android device, he’s able to spoof the location his device reports to Telegram servers. By using just three different locations and measuring the corresponding distance reported by People Nearby, he is able to pinpoint a user’s precise location. […] A proof-of-concept video the researcher sent to Telegram showed how he could discern the address of a People Nearby user when he used a free GPS spoofing app to make his phone report just three different locations. He then drew a circle around each of the three locations with a radius of the distance reported by Telegram. The user’s precise location was where all three intersected...
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- Google Adds New Option to 'Auto-Delete' Your Location History and Activity Data
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Finding the Location of Telegram Users
Published: 2021-01-14 12:08:27
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Author: Bruce Schneier
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LLM Says: ""Tracking down""
Google Adds New Option to 'Auto-Delete' Your Location History and Activity Data
Published: 2019-05-02 07:45:38
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Author: noreply@blogger.com (Swati Khandelwal)
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Google is giving you more control over how long you want the tech company to hold on to your location history and web activity data. Google has introduced a new, easier, privacy-focused auto-delete feature for your Google account that will allow you to automatically delete your Location History and Web and App Activity data after a set period of time. Google's Location History feature, if
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