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Spies Can Track You Just By Watching Your Phone's Power ­se


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Phone power consumption clue

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Smartphone users might balk at letting a random app like Candy Crush or Shazam track their every move via GPS. But researchers have found that Android phones reveal information about your location to every app on your device through a different, unlikely data leak: the phone's power consumption.

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