{"id":971139,"date":"2025-11-01T08:51:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T03:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=971139"},"modified":"2025-11-01T09:51:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T04:21:57","slug":"gps-data-reveals-more-than-just-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/01\/gps-data-reveals-more-than-just-location\/","title":{"rendered":"GPS data reveals more than just location"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GPS guides us to places or help us track our online orders. But the \u201cfine-grained\u201d data collected by it on Android smartphones can reveal far more than just the location, quietly exposing a person&#8217;s activity, environment or even layout of the room they are in, according to a study conducted by IIT-Delhi. The study titled, \u201cAndroCon: An Android Phone-based Sensor for Ambient, Human Activity and Layout Sensing using Fine-Grained GPS Information\u201d has been published in ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, a top journal in the field of privacy-aware sensing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GPS guides us to places or help us track our online orders. But the \u201cfine-grained\u201d data collected by it on Android smartphones can reveal far more than just the location, quietly exposing a person&#8217;s activity, environment or even layout of the room they are in, according to a study conducted by IIT-Delhi. The study titled, \u201cAndroCon: An Android Phone-based Sensor for Ambient, Human Activity and Layout Sensing using Fine-Grained GPS Information\u201d has been published in ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, a top journal in the field of privacy-aware sensing.<\/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":[4,80,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-971139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971139","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=971139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}