[kictanet] For sale: Systems that can secretly track where cellphone users go around the globe

[Martin Gicheru]

The more technology becomes necessary the more we lose our privacy. I think
people are gradually accepting this fact, that we have been owned where
privacy is concerned.

Regards,
Martin Gicheru
Editor Techweez
On 25 Aug 2014 23:33, "ICT Researcher via kictanet" <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

>
> By Craig Timberg August 24 at 7:02 PM
>
> Makers of surveillance systems are offering governments across the world
> the ability to track the movements of almost anybody who carries a
> cellphone, whether they are blocks away or on another continent.
>
> The technology works by exploiting an essential fact of all cellular
> networks: They must keep detailed, up-to-the-minute records on the
> locations of their customers to deliver calls and other services to them.
> Surveillance systems are secretly collecting these records to map people’s
> travels over days, weeks or longer, according to company marketing
> documents and experts in surveillance technology.
>
> The world’s most powerful intelligence services, such as the National
> Security Agency and Britain’s GCHQ, long have used cellphone data to track
> targets around the globe. But experts say these new systems allow less
> technically advanced governments to track people in any nation — including
> the United States — with relative ease and precision.
>
> Users of such technology type a phone number into a computer portal, which
> then collects information from the location databases maintained by
> cellular carriers, company documents show. In this way, the surveillance
> system learns which cell tower a target is currently using, revealing his
> or her location to within a few blocks in an urban area or a few miles in a
> rural one.
>
> Read more at:
>
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/for-sale-systems-that-can-secretly-track-where-cellphone-users-go-around-the-globe/2014/08/24/f0700e8a-f003-11e3-bf76-447a5df6411f_story.html?wpisrc=nl-tech&wpmm=1
>
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