Mobile Device Users Can be Tracked Using Google Web Mapping

Geotargeting

Google customers whose mobile device Wi-Fi is on may have their previous whereabouts available for anyone to track on the Web.  Among Google’s practices is the publication of the probable location of millions of mobile devices that have active Wi-Fi connection.  This is only the latest of a number of discoveries being made this year regarding the tracking and locating of mobile devices, and the associated privacy issues.  One example of this occurrence is with Android phones which have enabled location services.  They regularly send location data stamped with the…

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