I used to work for one of the big cell providers, working with their law enforcement relations department. They can travel back in time to get your location.
If you live in New York, but traveled to Montana four years ago and robbed a bank in a small town there, if you ever get on their radar, they can check your phone records and pinpoint the location of your phone at that particular time with ridiculous accuracy. You are busted.
In fact, if you have an android phone you can go to google and check your google account and pick any date in the past (that you had the phone and the account) and see a map of everywhere you went on any given day. It actually can be quite useful not only for prosecutors but, if you’re innocent, for you to support the argument that you were not at a particular place at a particular time. You can access the data with ease. Law enforcement needs a subpoena.
While I recognize that my personal data is anything but personal, I avoid Google like it’s a plague-infested leper. Everything about Google is evil, and I regularly evangelize against them to those who will listen.
That's why I plan to give my cell phone and access code to a homeless guy in New York before I rob the bank in Montana.
:-P
How does one search their android info and can it be deleted?
FB and data collectors must hate me. Cash a check every couple of days and pay cash for everything - even when I go out to eat.
5 PM the iPhone gets put on the desk until in the morning. Don’t carry it when I go out and about.
Out to eat and I look at the next table. Four people - all looking at their smart phones.
Thanks....helpful comment.
THIS IS WHY SNOWDEN SHOULD BE A NATIONAL HERO!
He exposed that the NSA collects EVERYTHING.
This is useless for real time data discovery- there is just too much. You can’t analyze all of it at once. (ok maybe not ‘useless’... don’t get hung up here, I am making a point)
BUT...
You can go back in history and look at data for a specific person, once they come onto your radar.
Post a comment about a political figure that he doesn’t like? Let’s just see what you’ve been up to online...