PinMe: tracking a smartphone with localization services turned off

Arsalan Mosenia, Xiaoliang Dai, Prateek Mittal and Niraj Jha, in paper recently published, describe a new user-location mechanism that exploits non-sensory/sensory data stored on the smartphone to estimate the user’s location when all location services are turned off. The technique, tested on iPhone 6, iPhone 6S and Galaxy S4, is …

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