This isn't a generic data privacy counter-measure or concern. This is specifically targeted against stalking, which is pretty much one of only a few cases where this kind of thing would be used against you. Specifically the case where the perpetrator will place a device in or on the victim's car.
I can imagine half a dozen ways to use this data against you in all kinds of settings. Sales, divorce, employment, espionage against your employer, burglary, and basic blackmail.
Sure, but the stalking issue is a subset of the generic data privacy issue or do you believe you can hide from a stalker if everyone else under the sun knows you location. It might be too difficult to use location data brokers for stalking[1] but the whole economy around them makes the app ecosystem weak against location privacy and makes it easy to use a manipulated app for stalking. No special devices needed and certainly no cellular devices needed.
I’m not sure what point you’re really trying to make here. This is a thread about detection methods of an extremely invasive (and rare) method of stalking, which yes is a subset of a data privacy issue. The fact that data brokers can get a lot of location and other data about you is irrelevant to the discussion.
> or do you believe you can hide from a stalker if everyone else under the sun knows you location.
I’m not sure anyone is claiming that the detection methods described in this study are going to make you completely undetectable to any party at all times. Again, not sure what point you’re trying to make here and it feels irrelevant to the larger thread. The original comment seemed to indicate that the article hadn’t been read at all.
My point is that what they are doing is interesting and commendable but if they want to effectively help stalking victims they are barking up
the wrong tree and that there are much better ways to spend time and energy to help the issue at hand.
What? sorry, but this is pure nonsense. better ways like what? This is a study. Did you read it at all? Again, it’s not claiming to be a cure-all solution. It’s studying how to detect low powered LTE devices in a vehicle. Did you read it?
