{"id":252548,"date":"2024-08-08T18:18:06","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T18:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/08\/smartphone-flaw-allows-hackers-and-governments-to-map-your-home\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:12:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:12:45","slug":"smartphone-flaw-allows-hackers-and-governments-to-map-your-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/08\/smartphone-flaw-allows-hackers-and-governments-to-map-your-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Smartphone flaw allows hackers and governments to map your home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" alt=\"A man standing in modern apartment and using a smart phone\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/07123046\/SEI_215928356.jpg\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1288px) 837px, (min-width: 1024px) calc(57.5vw + 55px), (min-width: 415px) calc(100vw - 40px), calc(70vw + 74px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/07123046\/SEI_215928356.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/07123046\/SEI_215928356.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/07123046\/SEI_215928356.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/07123046\/SEI_215928356.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/07123046\/SEI_215928356.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/07123046\/SEI_215928356.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/07123046\/SEI_215928356.jpg?width=837 837w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/07123046\/SEI_215928356.jpg?width=900 900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/07123046\/SEI_215928356.jpg?width=1003 1003w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/07123046\/SEI_215928356.jpg?width=1100 1100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/07123046\/SEI_215928356.jpg?width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/07123046\/SEI_215928356.jpg?width=1300 1300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/07123046\/SEI_215928356.jpg?width=1400 1400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/07123046\/SEI_215928356.jpg?width=1500 1500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/07123046\/SEI_215928356.jpg?width=1600 1600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/07123046\/SEI_215928356.jpg?width=1674 1674w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/07123046\/SEI_215928356.jpg?width=1700 1700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/07123046\/SEI_215928356.jpg?width=1800 1800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/07123046\/SEI_215928356.jpg?width=1900 1900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/07123046\/SEI_215928356.jpg?width=2006 2006w\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-image-context=\"Article\" data-image-id=\"2443068\" data-caption=\"AI can be used to detect where you are and what you are doing from GPS data\" data-credit=\"South_agency\/Getty Images\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">AI can be used to detect where you are and what you are doing from GPS data<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">South_agency\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Hackers, app developers and even government agencies could be using your smartphone to create a map of the room you are in and determine what you are doing. The security vulnerability uses data in the GPS signal and doesn\u2019t require access to data from the camera, microphone or accelerometer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cse.iitd.ernet.in\/~viresh\/author\/soham-nag\/\">Soham Nag<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cse.iitd.ac.in\/~srsarangi\/\">Smruti Sarangi<\/a> at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi have been researching whether any information other than location could be extracted from GPS signals when Android smartphone\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2442011-smartphone-flaw-allows-hackers-and-governments-to-map-your-home\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] AI can be used to detect where you are and what you are doing from GPS data South_agency\/Getty Images Hackers, app developers and even<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":252549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}