[Year 12 IT Apps] Privacy, metadata and your phone

Sun Aug 23 22:31:53 AEST 2015

It all depends on what's meant by "track," "phone" and "off.”  Its actually quite complicated and sophisticated.
http://www.darkreading.com/risk-management/can-the-nsa-really-track-turned-off-cellphones/d/d-id/1110897?page_number=1 <http://www.darkreading.com/risk-management/can-the-nsa-really-track-turned-off-cellphones/d/d-id/1110897?page_number=1>

If anybody is really concerned, remove the phone’s battery and avoid using turning it on to make phone calls, post to social media or view a map. Only use cheap phones that can be regularly given away or recycled. Personally, I would recommend considering using a land line from within the safety of a faraday-cage such as the backyard chook shed.

Regards Roland

> On 18 Aug 2015, at 8:34 am, John Bellavance <John.Bellavance at beaconhills.vic.edu.au> wrote:
> 
> Hi Michael,
>  
> Thank you for the links.
> Are you saying that if your phone is turned off, it is still tracking?
> If so, do you have an article about this.
>  
> John Bellavance
> Beaconhills College
>  
> From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au <mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au> [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au <mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au>] On Behalf Of Walker, Michael A
> Sent: Monday, 17 August 2015 6:07 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Privacy, metadata and your phone
>  
> There’s also a Victorian site for open data : https://www.data.vic.gov.au/ <https://www.data.vic.gov.au/>
> The Victorian government also run a hackathon – there was one run a few months back.
>  
> Also of interest I use in class is getting students to log in to their Google account then go to www.google.com/locationhistory/ <http://www.google.com/locationhistory/>
>  
> The new version has a really nice interface for seeing exactly where you have been over the last day, week, month, year, etc.
>  
> I also use it in Year 11 IT related to ethical ICT issues where I get students to tell me about how they feel about their location being tracked constantly, then tell the story of someone I heard of through a common acquaintance who was a reformed drug dealer whose former acquaintances tried to set him up. After a period of time sweating blood, the police let him know that he was no longer under suspicion of the crime he had been set up for, but his mates were. The basis for this was the phone location data for him and his mates – the police could see where he had been helping serve meals to the poor, whereas his mates who thought they were clever turning their phones off didn’t realise the phone still kept saving location data…
>  
> Michael Walker
> Doncaster Secondary College
> From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au <mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au> [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au <mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au>] On Behalf Of Robert Timmer-Arends
> Sent: Monday, 17 August 2015 5:50 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Privacy, metadata and your phone
>  
> Thanks for posting this Michael - I saw the Will Ockenden's report on the ABC the other night and had fogotten all about it. You've also reminded me of something that came up at one of the DLTV DigiCon sessions a few week ago, and that I thought might be a useful posting for this list. Apparently not many people had heard of GovHack, which in itself isn't important, but what could be useful is the list of Australian data sources GovHack has published.
>  
> https://www.govhack.org/2015-data/ <https://www.govhack.org/2015-data/>
>  
>  
> Regards
> Robert T-A
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> From: Poke, Michael C <mailto:poke.michael.c at edumail.vic.gov.au>
> To: <itapps at edulists.com.au> <mailto:itapps at edulists.com.au%3e>
> Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2015 8:59 PM
> Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] Privacy, metadata and your phone
>  
> Hi all,
> I found this fascinating website about how our phones virtually track our every move...
>  
> http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-16/metadata-retention-privacy-phone-will-ockenden/6694152 <http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-16/metadata-retention-privacy-phone-will-ockenden/6694152>
>  
> I thought it could be useful for U4O2 as well as the SAT next year. I've included it in a repository of links that could be useful for the big SAT next year over on the VCE Computing Teachers Google+ Community (which now boasts 67 members currently...albeit not very active...as yet!). I'm pretty sure we could all benefit from contributing to this repository for the SAT also. 
>  
> VCE Computing Teachers on G+: https://plus.google.com/u/2/communities/104249627663280730813 <https://plus.google.com/u/2/communities/104249627663280730813>>
>  
> Cheers,
> Michael 
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