• Earlier this year ICE ordered new vehicles equipped with smartphone-tracking hardware.
  • Cell-tower simulating “Stingray” devices gather records on phones in their vicinity.
  • Luckily, Android 16 includes new measure for detecting when you may be monitored in this fashion.
    • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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      3 days ago

      They don’t fully turn off. I don’t remember the official name for it, but it’s a low energy state. It’s how Apple can track your stolen MacBook or iphone, even if the thief turned it off.