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FINDING YOU: THE NETWORK EFFECT OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS VULNERABILITIES FOR LOCATION DISCLOSURE

citizenlab.ca33 min read

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The document from CitizenLab discusses the vulnerabilities of mobile networks and how they can be exploited by surveillance actors to track users' locations. These vulnerabilities are most often tied to the signaling messages sent between telecommunications networks which expose phones to different modes of location disclosure.