---
title: "Location Based Services: the big brother thanks you ;-)"
url: https://infosecurity.ch/20091201/location-based-services-the-big-brother-thanks-you/
date: 2009-12-01
author: Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
language: en
tags: [civilrights, mobile, policy, privacy]
---

# Location Based Services: the big brother thanks you ;-)

Do you use your iphone, google phone, blackberry or nokia smartphone with cool built-in GPS?

Well law enforcement can now know even better where you are, at any time, even with historical data and much better than BTS based location systems.

Sprint has given 8 million times customer’s GPS information to law enforcement (sound something like a semi-automatic request).

Read [here](http://paranoia.dubfire.net/2009/12/8-million-reasons-for-real-surveillance.html).

Nice extract is:

> Sprint Nextel provided law enforcement agencies with its customers’ (GPS) location information over 8 million times between September 2008 and October 2009. This massive disclosure of sensitive customer information was made possible due to the roll-out by Sprint of a new, special web portal for law enforcement officers.

The informations was provided at [wiretapping and interception industry conference](http://www.issworldtraining.com/ISS_WASH/) ISS WASH in Washingtown.

If you want see directly the video:

[Sprint: 50 million customers, 8 million law enforcement GPS requests in 1 year](http://vimeo.com/7912593) from [Christopher Soghoian](http://vimeo.com/user1582178) on [Vimeo](http://vimeo.com/).

Then you know that “big brother” is watching you only because you let him to watch you.