{"id":970809,"date":"2025-10-31T09:37:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T04:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=970809"},"modified":"2025-10-31T11:02:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T05:32:55","slug":"phone-signal-can-track-more-than-your-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/31\/phone-signal-can-track-more-than-your-location\/","title":{"rendered":"Phone signal can track more than your location"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: A new study from IIT-Delhi reveals that the humble GPS chip inside smartphones can disclose far more than a user\u2019s location. It can also quietly indicate what someone is doing\u2014whether sitting, walking, or flying\u2014and even describe their immediate environment, such as whether they are indoors, outdoors, in a crowded area, or on a flight. <\/p>\n<p>The work, led by Soham Nag, an MTech student, and Profesor Smruti R. Sarangi from Department of Computer Science and Engineering, introduces a system called AndroCon, which can extract detailed contextual information solely from GPS data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: A new study from IIT-Delhi reveals that the humble GPS chip inside smartphones can disclose far more than a user\u2019s location. It can also quietly indicate what someone is doing\u2014whether sitting, walking, or flying\u2014and even describe their immediate environment, such as whether they are indoors, outdoors, in a crowded area, or on a flight. The work, led by Soham Nag, an MTech student, and Profesor Smruti R. Sarangi from Department of Computer Science and Engineering, introduces a system called AndroCon, which can extract detailed contextual information solely from GPS data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,76,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-970809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}