{"id":42315,"date":"2021-08-13T11:35:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T11:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/before-i-agree-to-let-your-app-track-me-everywhere-i-want-something-special-in-return-winks\/"},"modified":"2021-08-13T11:35:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T11:35:12","slug":"before-i-agree-to-let-your-app-track-me-everywhere-i-want-something-special-in-return-winks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/before-i-agree-to-let-your-app-track-me-everywhere-i-want-something-special-in-return-winks\/","title":{"rendered":"Before I agree to let your app track me everywhere, I want something &#8216;special&#8217; in return (winks)\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-label=\"something for the weekend, sir?\">Something for the Weekend, Sir?<\/span> &#8220;This website is requesting permission to access your location. Yes\/No?&#8221; Absolutely not. My personal details are sacred!<\/p>\n<p>I learnt this the hard way. An unfortunate experience with what seemed like a harmless little app \u2013 <i>RshnMobstr<\/i>, I think it was called \u2013 taught me not to give away too much.<\/p>\n<p>The app asked perfectly innocent questions about my current address, age, occupation\u2026 that sort of thing. Oh and my IBAN, mother&#8217;s maiden name, the name of my first pet, the brand of my first car, my favourite movie, the last time I cried, my height, weight, length, girth\u2026 well, you get the idea. And the next thing I know, a bunch of nosey-parker call-centre staff started ringing me day and night to ask whether I had just used my credit card to purchase a light aeroplane in Murmansk.<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"top\" data-raptor=\"condor\" data-xsm=\",fluid,mpu,\" data-sm=\",fluid,mpu,\" data-md=\",fluid,mpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=2&amp;c=2YRdAFKFSV4tnblsw-cbTJQAAAMM&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=2&amp;c=2YRdAFKFSV4tnblsw-cbTJQAAAMM&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p>I told them it was none of their business. My personal details are sacred, after all.<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"top\" data-raptor=\"falcon\" data-xmd=\",fluid,mpu,leaderboard,\" data-lg=\",fluid,mpu,leaderboard,\" data-xlg=\",fluid,billboard,superleaderboard,mpu,leaderboard,\" data-xxlg=\",fluid,billboard,superleaderboard,brandwidth,brandimpact,leaderboard,mpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44YRdAFKFSV4tnblsw-cbTJQAAAMM&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44YRdAFKFSV4tnblsw-cbTJQAAAMM&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D426raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<div class=\"adun_eagle_desktop_story_wrapper\">\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"mid\" data-raptor=\"eagle\" data-xxlg=\",mpu,dmpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=3&amp;c=33YRdAFKFSV4tnblsw-cbTJQAAAMM&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=3&amp;c=33YRdAFKFSV4tnblsw-cbTJQAAAMM&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>People complain about being prompted to accept or reject cookies by every website they visit. Well, being nagged to give away my location is worse. It&#8217;s just good technology applied badly \u2013 or should I say disingenuously.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the cookie thing is annoying but I get it. There is a sort of naive honesty about a shady online outfit asking a site visitor if they&#8217;d mind having their computer carpet-bombed with unethical data-thieving spyware ad grenades. The visitor can then choose whether they will bother to visit that site ever again based on whether or not there is a Disallow All Cookies button.<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"top\" data-raptor=\"falcon\" data-xsm=\",fluid,mpu,\" data-sm=\",fluid,mpu,\" data-md=\",fluid,mpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44YRdAFKFSV4tnblsw-cbTJQAAAMM&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44YRdAFKFSV4tnblsw-cbTJQAAAMM&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D426raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p>If I might make one small request, though? In addition to Allow All Cookies and Disallow All Cookies buttons, I would like websites to include a third option: Install A Lifetime Cookie To Remember You Clicked Disallow All Cookies.<\/p>\n<p>It seems a lifetime ago when I consciously made a pact with the Devil to allow Google Maps to follow me around the streets. If you want to go from A to B, route-mapping systems find it helpful if you agree to tell it where A is. Later in the day, of course, Google Maps nags me to submit &#8220;user-generated content&#8221; about all the shops and other places I went to, so I just repeatedly tap the option to say I hadn&#8217;t visited that place at all and Google Maps repeatedly apologises for its error. I&#8217;m not so bothered about privacy; I just get a kick out of the apologies.<\/p>\n<p>Before the rise of the Pandemic That Shall Not Be Named, it was charming to have Google Maps surprise me with an unsolicited notification showing me a map of all the locations it thought I had been to over the previous month or two. London, Belgrade, Paris, Chicago, er\u2026 Herne Bay\u2026 I would feel a proper little International Man of Mystery. Yeah, baby.<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" id=\"story_eagle_xsm_sm_md_xmd_lg_xlg\" data-pos=\"mid\" data-raptor=\"eagle\" data-xsm=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-sm=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-md=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-xmd=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-lg=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-xlg=\",mpu,dmpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=3&amp;c=33YRdAFKFSV4tnblsw-cbTJQAAAMM&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=3&amp;c=33YRdAFKFSV4tnblsw-cbTJQAAAMM&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p>Post-Voldemort-19, that map looks rather sad. Rather than spanning continents, it has zoomed in on my neighbourhood with a little star at my front door and another at the off-licence. Oh, and there&#8217;s one at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.laquequetterie.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">La Quequetterie<\/a>, a local cake shop I once visited that does a roaring trade in iced phalluses and vulva pancakes. <i>[Warning: link NSFW if you scroll downwards]<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Oh come on, how could I <i>not<\/i> check out this shop? It might seem a desperate marketing ploy at first but, again, I respect the naive honesty of selling a dick-on-a-stick without pretending it&#8217;s just a long donut. In a previous era, Cadbury&#8217;s ad agency was notorious for the latter type of crass subterfuge, boosting sales by popularising chocolate fellatio on pre-watershed television.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/GVia3SqoP-A\" data-media=\"x-videoplayer\">Youtube Video<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Using Google Maps to find the shop had the additional benefit of sending the arse end of my personal profile stored in Google&#8217;s data dungeons into an uncontrolled twerk. It would certainly explain why I have started seeing fewer banner ads for electronic components and more three-second interstitials for pole-dancing YouTubers.<\/p>\n<p>Undesirable, perhaps, but understandable. It&#8217;s a location-tracking trade-off I entered into deliberately \u2013 foolishly, perhaps, but knowingly.<\/p>\n<p>So would I buy a personal tracking device? One of those little plastic tag gadgets that you hide in suitcases or sew into the lining of your kids&#8217; raincoats? Now that&#8217;s another matter. When I share my data with Google Maps, I like to imagine my data is sloshing around in decent company alongside that of fellow route-hunting sat-navvers, world-travelling businesspeople, and sniggering middle-aged men buying a rolled pancake on a stick. That&#8217;s not the case with people-trackers.<\/p>\n<p>The fastest growth areas in the market for personal tracking devices are not pets and grandads but employees and offenders. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abiresearch.com\/market-research\/product\/7778817-people-tracking-for-enterprise-lone-worker\/\" rel=\"noopener\">A report from ABI Research<\/a> reckons this segment will reach an installed base of 10 million by 2026. This reveals a lot about how bosses regard their workers. And soon your little Timmy&#8217;s location will be rubbing shoulders with those of sex offenders on day release. I know it&#8217;s just ones and zeros but, you know, yuk. I wouldn&#8217;t poke that kind of metadata with a bargepole.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I&#8217;m just prolonging the inevitable. A <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/smart-cities-marketplace.ec.europa.eu\/media\/2481\" rel=\"noopener\">smart cities report from the EU<\/a> earlier this year suggested using lampposts to spy on citizens\u2026 er, I mean of course &#8220;to tackle Covid response and recovery&#8221; (it says here).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;21st century lamp columns go beyond street lighting by incorporating sensors that can receive and transmit information about crowd density, and even the body temperature of individuals,&#8221; marvels the report. &#8220;They can also incorporate CCTV, air quality sensors, flooding monitors, digital signage, and 5G wifi hotspots.&#8221; Those testing such waters include London&#8217;s Westminster City Council, which wants to manipulate street lighting in real time to <span class=\"strike\">herd<\/span>, sorry, <i>guide<\/i> people away from crowded areas. You know, to stop Covid.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s one thing to hand my location to Google Maps while I wind my way down the streets. If the street furniture I walk past is also tracking me \u2013 and my body temperature \u2013 without asking, I may as well throw caution to the wind. Maybe there will be a benefit. Let&#8217;s give it a go!<\/p>\n<p>Hmm, I think need new <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=shreddies\" rel=\"noopener\">shreds<\/a>. I have a quick look online to see what the current fashion is for gentlemen&#8217;s undergarments. The website is asking if it&#8217;s OK to detect my location. That strikes me as odd but then it could be that the style for cutties is different on my side of town. I click Yes.<\/p>\n<p>I want to read the news about a very specific item of local current affairs. I look it up and click on a link\u2026 and the website wants to know my location. Will the story on that website be written differently if I happen to be reading it in Barnsley? We&#8217;ll soon find out: I click Yes.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to read some advice on how to stop a bicycle chain from slipping off when changing gear. Oh, but first the site is requesting permission to find my location. Maybe there&#8217;s an atmospheric influence on chain slippage in different parts of the world, who knows? I click Yes.<\/p>\n<p>And what do I get in return for my personal data largesse?<\/p>\n<p>The checkout page on the online clothing store still hasn&#8217;t the faintest fucking idea where I am in the world and it&#8217;s only after I type in my full postal address AND select my nearest branch from a list that it tells me it&#8217;s out of stock.<\/p>\n<p>The news site finds my location, squirrels the data away for selling to phishing gangsters and says no more about it. The story I wanted to read is lost as the page duly refreshes to show irrelevant shit about stuff happening 9,000 miles away.<\/p>\n<p>The cycling maintenance manuals, which were in English when I first landed on the site, have now switched to German. I guess the bike manufacturer wasn&#8217;t made aware that my current location was liberated 77 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Good technology applied badly, eh? \u00ae<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/sPTPIlnzhcc\" data-media=\"x-videoplayer\">Youtube Video<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"boxout\" readability=\"13.137577002053\">\n<div class=\"CaptionedImage Left Border Float\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/regmedia.co.uk\/2020\/01\/02\/alistair-dabbs-mugshot.jpg\" height=\"80\" width=\"80\" alt=\"Alistair Dabbs\" title=\"Alistair Dabbs\"><\/div>\n<p><b>Alistair Dabbs<\/b> is a freelance technology tart, juggling tech journalism, training and digital publishing. Talking of that 1980s TV ad for Cadbury&#8217;s Flake, he always wondered what barrels of depravity in the dank cellars of the human id are supposed to be tapped by the symbolism of a lizard running across the dial of an unanswered, ringing telephone with a flashing red light. Enlightenment from readers with a psychological bent is welcome. More at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/autosaveisforwimps.substack.com\" rel=\"noopener\">Autosave is for Wimps<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alidabbs\" rel=\"noopener\">@alidabbs<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p> READ MORE <a href=\"https:\/\/go.theregister.com\/feed\/www.theregister.com\/2021\/08\/13\/something_for_the_weekend\/\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Help me, officer, I\u2019m lost! &#8216;No problem, sir, you\u2019re right in front of me&#8217; Something for the Weekend, Sir?\u00a0 &#8220;This website is requesting permission to access your location. Yes\/No?&#8221; Absolutely not. 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