Tracking systems !

ARTICLE N°1: Tiny Device Allows You To Track Your Car Using Your Smartphone

by Ronny

With Over 5 Million Units Sold Worldwide, This is The Most Affordable Solution to Find Your Lost Items!

Have you ever lost your car on a parking lot? It happens. You park and go shopping. When you get back, you don't have a clue where your car is. Then you start roaming around clicking on the panic button on your car keys so the alarm goes off. It can be frustrating, especially on a hot, sunny day.

No, you don't need to install an expensive GPS system to keep track of your car. That's way too expensive. You would need to pay a monthly subscription fee just to use it. Don't we have enough bills to pay already?

But is there a way to track your vehicle without spending a fortune? Yes, now there is!

A California-based startup company was able to make this a reality. They created a tiny device that works with your smartphone, and it could be exactly what you're looking for!

What is it?

It's called TrackR Bravo. It is a state-of-the-art tracking device the size of a quarter. It's changing the way we keep track of the important things in our lives.

How Does it Work?

It's easy! Install the free TrackR app on your smartphone, connect the app to your device and you're ready to go! Simply attach TrackR to whatever you want to keep tabs on. The entire process of setting it up only takes 5 minutes or less.

You can attach it to your keys, briefcase, wallet, your latest tech gadgets and anything else you don't want to lose. Then use the TrackR app to locate your missing item in seconds.

Forget expensive GPS systems or tracking services. Nobody wants to pay expensive monthly subscription fees. We understand how stressful these things can be, and this is the reason why TrackR was created. This device is your VIP when you need to take care of more important things in life.

Remember the car scenario above? If you have the TrackR, you can just hide it under your car's floor mat, in the trunk or in the glove compartment. Somewhere it won't be found if your car gets stolen.

If you forget where you parked your car, whip out your smartphone and open the TrackR app. Tap on the "lost item" icon on the screen and the app will tell you the exact coordinates of the last known location of the TrackR.

What Else Can I Do With TrackR?

As we said before, TrackR has unlimited possibilities. The device is small and unobtrusive enough that you can attach it to your pet.

Put it on their collar, and the issue of searching for them as they scamper off to nearby places will be over! Attach it to your keys and wallet, and never waste a minute rummaging the whole house for it.

Article N°2: All the Secret Ways You're Being Tracked That You Don't Even Realize

by Zeeshan Aleem

Your cellphone emits a signal that tags your location every minute of every day. Your Google search log records your private anxieties and interests. Your text messages and social media accounts capture every detail of your social life. Your store purchases produce records of your spending habits. Your photos are embedded with the date, time and location of the moment they were taken.

Everything you do and everywhere you go, you leave a trail of data that reveals intimate details of your life, and governments, corporations and hackers are keen on having more and more of it in their hands.

That's why Bruce Schneier, a computer security and privacy specialist, wrote the new book Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World, an examination of where your data ends up and who is most eager to acquire it.

"Data is the pollution problem of the information age, and protecting privacy is the environmental challenge," he writes. "Almost all computers produce personal information. It stays around, festering. How we deal with it — how we contain it and how we dispose of it — is central to the health of our information economy."

In 2013, the world caught a glimpse of what poor data health looks like when Edward Snowden leaked an enormous trove of NSA documents, showing a regime of global surveillance far more invasive than the public had ever imagined.  

Schneier lays out how the NSA is only one of many different kinds of surveillance entities that the public needs to worry about. He explains how we need to re-evaluate the trade-off that we make by giving up personal data in the name of convenience and security. While Schneier is not against surveillance per se, he's concerned that if governments and corporations have free reign over our data, it will inevitably be misused to undermine freedoms we take for granted today.

 Mic: How can our cellphones be used to track us, and who does the tracking?

Bruce Schneier: A cellphone is probably the most intimate tracking device ever invented. It needs to know where you are at all times. Otherwise, it isn't able to connect your phone calls. Location tracking is part of how the system works. And if you assume that everyone carries one, it's easy for the system to correlate locations and figure out who is with you — who works with you and who sleeps with you. Your phone also knows who you talk to, how often, what times of day and how long. It knows who you send text messages to. And because your phone is also a computer, all the Internet tracking we're constantly subjected to happens on your phone as well.

As to who does this: everyone who can. Your cellphone provider tracks all of your cellphone use. The various Internet sites you visit track your Internet use. And many of those companies package and sell this information to others.

"As a society, we need to choose security over surveillance."

Conclusion:

The first article is all about a new little devise that permit us to track our favorite and major object that we have. In fact we can track anything with this little GPS tracker thanks to the trackR app. What is interesting is that it has unlimited possibilities to help us find something. Also this device is cheaper than any other and allowed everyone having access to more security by deterring thieves!

The second article denounce this GPS spying, that big companies using for their BigData. It's a problem because today our cellphones emits signal that permit the one who received them to know everything about us, our location in some other words our private life.

In my mind, because of the power of data everyone want to control it and data is becoming a product used against our consent. On the other side it could help us in a way to be more protected against terrorism act or when we are loosing our cellphones. To conclude, cellphones GPS is one of the greatest feature usable for our everyday shifting but it also mean being monitor by agencies.