TY - GEN
T1 - Location tracking using smartphone accelerometer and magnetometer traces
AU - Nguyen, Khuong An
AU - Akram, Raja Naeem
AU - Markantonakis, Konstantinos
AU - Luo, Zhiyuan
AU - Watkins, Christopher
N1 - 14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2019) ; Conference date: 26-08-2019 Through 29-08-2019
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - We demonstrate a breach in smartphone location privacy through the accelerometer and magnetometer's footprints. The merits or otherwise of explicitly permissioned location sensors are not the point of this paper. Instead, our proposition is that other non-location-sensitive sensors can track users accurately when the users are in motion, as in travelling on public transport, such as trains, buses, and taxis.Through field trials, we provide evidence that high accuracy location tracking can be achieved even via non-location-sensitive sensors for which no access authorisation is required from users on a smartphone.
AB - We demonstrate a breach in smartphone location privacy through the accelerometer and magnetometer's footprints. The merits or otherwise of explicitly permissioned location sensors are not the point of this paper. Instead, our proposition is that other non-location-sensitive sensors can track users accurately when the users are in motion, as in travelling on public transport, such as trains, buses, and taxis.Through field trials, we provide evidence that high accuracy location tracking can be achieved even via non-location-sensitive sensors for which no access authorisation is required from users on a smartphone.
KW - location tracking
KW - zero-permission apps
U2 - 10.1145/3339252.3340518
DO - 10.1145/3339252.3340518
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9781450371643
BT - 14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security
ER -