Recall, as Naked Security’s Lisa Vaas reported just a few weeks ago, that lawyers for Timothy Ivory Carpenter, convicted in 2014 of a string of robberies in the Midwest, are arguing that the convictions should be thrown out because prosecutors relied in part on cell tower data for which law enforcement didn’t obtain a warrant. That’s never been entirely true – since your phone continues connecting with cell towers even with GPS turned off, anyone with access to that data can come reasonably close to locking in on your location. ![]() Don’t want anybody tracking you through your smartphone? Just turn off “location services” or whatever your device calls your GPS, and you will vanish from the online radar screen, right?
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