Why You Should Care About Phone Metadata
Saw this over at Schneier’s Security site.
How your phone tracks your every move
His phone was leaving traces about 3x an hour and it wasn’t just GPS coordinates.
It is an ABC (Australian) report. They asked normal people to look at some metadata to figure out what they could know about a person. Bingo!
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
For everyone who doesn’t have an issue with this – fine. Send me all your emails, texts, tweets, G+ posts, FB posts, all contacts in every device you own, a list of everything you watch on TV, through Netflix, popcorn, all the torrents and photos from the last 6 months. After all, you don’t have anything to hide. Oh – and I don’t want just the nice, sanitized stuff. Send it all.
After all, you have nothing to hide.
Here’s what the public found in his metadata.
His final thoughts:
Having strangers poring over your data can be an unnerving experience but whether we’re aware of it or not that’s increasingly the case in the world we live in.
