[tor-talk] Can Google location system track TOR users?

Lunar lunar at torproject.org
Fri Nov 15 13:35:49 UTC 2013


Sukhoi:
> I am surprised how google maps was able to track my location, with
> few meters of error, by using the "Share Location" feature.
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> It is not clear how they are tracking the location with such
> accuracy. For sure is not using the IP.

You might want to watch the following talk from 26c3, AFAIK, it is still
very much accurate:
http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2009/26c3-3600-de-location_tracking_does_scale_up.html

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Lunar                                             <lunar at torproject.org>
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