Sentences with phrase «cell tower locations»

If Location Services is on, your device will periodically send the geo - tagged locations of nearby Wi - Fi hotspots and cell towers to Apple to augment Apple's crowd - sourced database of Wi - Fi hotspot and cell tower locations.

Make sure you understand the cloud collects GPS location, crowd - sourced Wi - Fi information, cell tower location, device ID, Apple ID, etc..

There is however GPS with A-GPS support only — this means you can get the approximate location based on the network cell tower location.

Not exact matches

Other possible uses: monitoring bridges, cell towers and dangerous locations.

You can simply disable location services with an app, for example, but a mobile ISP can always see where phones are connected to its cell towers.

They mimic cell phone towers in order to force cell phones in the area to transmit «pings» back to the devices, enabling law enforcement to track a suspect's phone and pinpoint its location.

The company was able to match Android phones with various cell towers to triangulate a phone's location, according to a Quartz investigation.

Even before GPS technology was common, mobile phones worked using the same principles the Greeks used to determine their location, but instead of stars, cell towers triangulate the position of a mobile user.

StingRay (also known as «Hailstorm» or «TriggerFish») is an «IMSI catcher» basically acts like a cell phone tower, and sends out signals which force cell phones to ping them back with information showing their owner's location and other identifying information.

The location - sharing practice does not appear to be limited to any particular type of Android phone or tablet; Google was apparently collecting cell tower data from all modern Android devices before being contacted by Quartz.

«We never really think about it with a cell phone,» says Leetaru, pointing to the ability to trace a user's location by tracking cell towers, essentially «leaving digital bread crumbs wherever you go.»

The trunk identifier shows which cell towers the calling and receiving phones talked to — the callers» locations, in other words.

Personal air vehicles will use GPS and cell phone technology to automatically broadcast information about location and speed to ground - based towers.

The GPS collars delivered highly accurate locations of the study animals (via satellites or cell towers) so the researchers were able to visit these locations during winter to investigate their activities and document predation patterns.

Such information can include certain location data pertaining to a user, if such information is made available from GPS, Wi - FI, or cell phone tower data in accordance with whatever settings may allow for the collection of such data in the user's web browser or cell phone.

They monitored 100,000 users for 6 months and recorded the location of the cell phone tower that transmitted each call or text message.

In the fall, Google was sued by Skyhook Wireless — the Boston - based outfit that pioneered the art of pinpointing a mobile device's location based on Wi - Fi and cell - tower signals — which accused using Android to strong - arm handset makers into choosing Google's location technology rather than Skyhook's.

Limited location services based on cell towers are likely to be available to KDK should user give their consent.

In contrast, Kindle regularly reports back to Amazon what's being read, when it's being read, and, at least for Kindles with 3G, where it's being read (apparently based on the location of the cell towers).

I suppose the Kindle's 3G connection might make it possible for some location - based apps that use cell towers instead of GPS.

brilliant location, lovely staff, great parking under hotel, wifi good & not in front of any cell phone towers..

Royal Revolt 2 requires your permission to access the precise location from location sources such as GPS, cell towers, and Wi - Fi.

The request permitted police to obtain subscriber data and call records of anyone who used their mobile devices near cell towers, in a location in Mississauga, just outside of Toronto.

• Cell towers & Wi - Fi provide location updates.

Tower dumps are shrouded in secrecy, but there is no doubt the police are using this technology on a regular basis, as well as similar tools that impersonate actual cell towers and trick phones into attaching to them and disclosing phone log and location information.

This last feature is becoming increasingly popular with apps like UberTwitter, which automatically updates your specific location based on cell tower proximity, and platforms like BrightKite, used specifically for finding those close to you for spontaneous meet - ups.

b) Two — an explanation as to why all of the named locations or cell towers, and all of the requested dates and time parameters, are relevant to the investigation.

I personally have dealt with it in several cases where, after the fact, a tel - co's cell phone tower records are subpoenaed and then used at trial to purport to provide a location of the accused (or at least his / her cell phone) during the commission of an offence.

Police will use human and automated surveillance, electronic eavesdropping and interception (wiretaps), real - time location evidence (including tracking devices and cell tower data), forensic evidence like DNA and fingerprints, eyewitness evidence and more.

Stingrays act as a small - scale cell tower, forcing nearby phones to connect to the device so it can gather identifying information like location or SIM card and carrier data.

The radios on a device use a large amount of power, communicating with cell towers, scanning for and connecting to nearby Wi - Fi networks, waiting for incoming Bluetooth connections, and occasionally checking your location via GPS.

As Ars has long reported, cell - site simulators — known colloquially as stingrays — can be used to determine a mobile phone's location by spoofing a cell tower.

Quartz discovered that Android was tracking nearby cell - towers and was feeding that information directly to Google, regardless of location services being on or off.

In addition, turning off location services may not protect you completely, as carriers can still track where you are through the cell towers that you are connected to and a smartphone's MAC address can still be picked up by open Wi - Fi hotspots.

The API uses low - power signals from a wide range of sensors to determine what the user is doing, relying on things like Bluetooth, Wi - Fi, gyroscope, accelerometer, and location data from cell towers and GPS.

Cell - site simulators, often called IMSI catchers or Stingrays, masquerade as cell phone towers and trick our phones into connecting to them so police can track down suspect targets, but their use also collects the data and location of innocent bystanders and extracts unnecessary sensitive data in the procCell - site simulators, often called IMSI catchers or Stingrays, masquerade as cell phone towers and trick our phones into connecting to them so police can track down suspect targets, but their use also collects the data and location of innocent bystanders and extracts unnecessary sensitive data in the proccell phone towers and trick our phones into connecting to them so police can track down suspect targets, but their use also collects the data and location of innocent bystanders and extracts unnecessary sensitive data in the process.

Unified Network Location Provider (UnifiedNlp) is a library that provides Wi - Fi - and Cell - tower - based geolocation to applications that use Google's network location pLocation Provider (UnifiedNlp) is a library that provides Wi - Fi - and Cell - tower - based geolocation to applications that use Google's network location plocation provider.

In addition to GPS location data provided by most smartphones, it's also easy, but less accurate, for carriers to track your movements by triangulating data from nearby cell towers.

Rogue stingrays — spy kits that can track people's locations by tricking phones into thinking they're connecting to cell towers and...

OTDOA, or Observed Time Difference of Arrival, is a protocol that uses cell towers to measure the time it takes for an LTE signal to reach a tower to determine a phone's location, as explained by Android Authority.

«If a broker has a property in a sweet spot — a 10 - acre horse property with lousy reception, a hill, and an access road — it could be an ideal location for a cell tower,» and a broker might contact a carrier.