> The article assumes that the location data must have been collected because he gave an app permission to access his location. I bet they couldn’t figure out which app it was because it wasn’t an app.
I worked on this story (and the others, we're still publishing [1] [2]).
The dataset we bought from Tamoco didn't contain an app name for most of the data. So instead of guessing, we're open about the fact that we don't quite know. Which is sort of the issue here – there's not a lot of transparency around what is collected and by whom.
The Norwegian Data Protection Agency (DPA) has opened an investigation into Tamoco [2] after our first story, and they want to cooperate with the UK DPA.
You should search the dataset for government building coordinates to deanonymize politicians and that ought to really be a scandal worthy of legislation against mobile tracking once you air their dirty secrets e.g. suspected infidelity, leisure trips to brothels, etc.
Having access to original NRK data, is it possible to deanonymize more people (try to check your home address, NRK HQ, etc), and ask them for a list of installed apps to check if all have one in common? Although it's questionable from privacy point of view, so probably better to pursue it in legal ways.
I’m cautious about what apps and services get access to my location and I feel like I have good control, but I don’t really have any idea of how carriers like Telenor and Telia handle my location data. Are you planning to touch on this or investigate it in the upcoming articles?
We mostly treat those as off topic too except in rare cases. If a news story is significant enough to appear on HN, there is almost always (or soon will be) an English language article about it that can be submitted directly.
But I appreciate your desire to submit a relevant story and will leave that one unmoderated.
Also check out Lygte Info[1], the site of a Dane who checks chargers and batteries usually bought from the Chinese sites like Banggood and AliExpress. Spoiler: Not all of them are bad.
I wouldn't doubt that Walmart, between their acquisition of jet.com and intense focus on competing with Amazon in the e-commerce arena is taking drone delivery services very seriously right now. They are already trying nearly everything else.
I just tested it on a Samsung Galaxy S3, in several forms (as src in link, script, img, video and object elements, as well as the href in an a element). Nothing happened here.
Smooth Streaming is certainly a great piece of technology, and thanks to the guys at Code Shop, it now works on several devices and using nginx, Apache and lighttpd: http://smoothstreaming.code-shop.com/trac
