Flashback 2018: Google Tracks Phone Locations Without SIM Cards or Network Connections

October 8th, 2024

I’ve posted hundreds of stories about mobile phone surveillance, especially as it relates to position tracking. This story is somewhere in my archives, but I was not able to find it. Thanks to Cryptogon reader B for sending this to me.

How Much Info Is Google Getting from Your Phone?

Fox Report Weekend
February 11, 2018
Google tracking phones even when they are disconnected?

Fox News Headlines 24/7 anchor Brett Larson investigated Google’s tracking capabilities.

Via: Fox News:

On YouTube:

Related:

Pedestrian Motion Tracking by Using Inertial Sensors on the Smartphone

Inertial Sensors for Smartphones Navigation

Off Isn’t Really Off

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One Response to “Flashback 2018: Google Tracks Phone Locations Without SIM Cards or Network Connections”

  1. NH says:
    October 8, 2024 at 10:26 am

    Very informative links—the second one analyzing the inertial tracking is quite technical, and is just looking at the Samsung Galaxy S5 and iPhone 4 tech—hard to even imagine what the capability of the new phones would be—then you’ve got the phased array antennas now in satellites/cell towers and cell phones…

    Phased array – Wikipedia

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