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Tag Archive: GPS
Obama’s NSA Watchdog: Tracking Cars Is Reasonable
” If one member of President Obama’s NSA review group charged with recommending surveillance policy gets his way, tracking cars could become a routine procedure in law enforcement.
University of Chicago law professor Geoffrey Stone took issue with a Supreme Court ruling in the case of the Jones GPS Tracking case. Stone took his case to the Stanford University Law Review in an article entitled, “A Reasonableness Approach to Searches After the Jones GPS Tracking Case.”
Here is a helpful hint on how to locate a tracking device on your own car :
How to Find a GPS System Under a Car | eHow
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No Shooting At Protest? Police May Block Mobile Devices Via Apple
” Apple has patented a piece of technology which would allow government and police to block transmission of information, including video and photographs, from any public gathering or venue they deem “sensitive”, and “protected from externalities.”
In other words, these powers will have control over what can and cannot be documented on wireless devices during any public event.
And while the company says the affected sites are to be mostly cinemas, theaters, concert grounds and similar locations, Apple Inc. also says “covert police or government operations may require complete ‘blackout’ conditions.” “
” Apple patented the means to transmit an encoded signal to all wireless devices, commanding them to disable recording functions.
Those policies would be activated by GPS, and WiFi or mobile base-stations, which would ring-fence (“geofence”) around a building or a “sensitive area” to prevent phone cameras from taking pictures or recording video.”
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Want To Know Who Stole Your Phone?
” Want to know who’s been snooping in or has stolen your phone? A new feature has been integrated into an app for Android that snaps the prying individual’s photo and sends it to you via email.A new feature in an app will alert the owner of a smartphone as to who stole, or is trying to snoop, in their device. According to Digital Trends, Lookout Security & Antivirus has made a recent update to its app.Called the Lock Cam, it works in conjunction with Android devices and uses a device’s front-facing camera to snap a picture of anyone trying to break into a smartphone or tablet.
If the thief, or nosy person, tries to crack the device’s password, three strikes and they are out. After three unsuccessful tries to unlock the gadget, a photo is snapped and the image immediately emailed to the gadget’s owner. Other information sent in the message includes the GPS location of where the smartphone is currently located. “
Related articles
- Find your Lost Android Phone with AirDroid 2 (techpp.com)
- Lookout app snaps a picture of any thief breaking into your phone (digitaltrends.com)
- Is Google’s new Chrome Android a tease for Android apps in the browser? (slashgear.com)
- Lookout Android App Can Take Photo Of Phone Thief (thedroidguy.com)
- Lookout security app for Android can now photograph thief, email the image (slashgear.com)
- Android App Takes Picture Of Thief Stealing Your Device (coated.com)
- Secretly take a photo of the snoop trying to access your Android with Lookout (venturebeat.com)
Study: Smartphone Data Could Cut Crashes
” Data from smartphone traffic apps can help prevent traffic crashes by helping deploy police resources at the most accident-prone areas, Israeli researchers say.
Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev say data from geosocial networks like the Global Positioning System traffic app Waze can identify locations where collisions occur most frequently.
Waze, with a reported 30 million worldwide users, records location data and enables users to upload and share comments on traffic alerts, collisions or police presence. ”
Related articles
- Ben-Gurion Univ. researchers data-mining geosocial networks to identify road safety issues and high frequency accident locations (greencarcongress.com)
- Study: Smartphone data could cut crashes (upi.com)
- Ben-Gurion U. researchers use data from traffic app to identify high frequency accident locations (eurekalert.org)
- Now, a mobile application to minimise accidents (ibnlive.in.com)
- A Way for Waze to Help Police at Traffic Trouble Spots (israelnationalnews.com)
- Now, mobile application to minimise accidents (firstpost.com)
Raymarine’s Mobile Apps
” Raymarine has launched new mobile apps for tablets and smartphones that let anglers wirelessly control c-Series and e-Series multifunction displays. The RayControl app transforms tablets into full-function MFD repeaters with seamless touch-screen interaction. RayControl comes with a virtual slide-out keypad that emulates the actual MFD keypad, allowing interaction anywhere on board. ”
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