Home Wi-Fi access point scans can betray a person's location
 

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Wi-Fi access point scans can betray a person's location

2015-05-28 06:09:23| Wireless - Topix.net

Many Android applications collect information on Wi-Fi access points, which researchers contend can be used to figure out where a person is more than 90 percent of the time. The privacy implications of Wi-Fi access point scanning is often overlooked but presents a risk if the information is abused, according to the study , written by the Technical University of Denmark, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Copenhagen.

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