The RCMP has had key to ‘unlock’ BlackBerry messages since as early as 2010, report says
A report by Vice News on Thursday, citing court documents, details how the Royal Canadian Mounted Police obtained a key to unlock messages sent between BlackBerry phones as early as 2010. The situation stands in stark contrast to the clash that erupted between Apple Inc. and the U.S. government earlier this year when the U.S. tech firm refused to redesign its software to let the FBI bypass encryption on an iPhone used by a shooter in the San Bernardino attacks.
How Short URLs Could Reveal Your Home Address and Get You Hacked
It turns out that the simplicity and convenience of short links has an unintended consequence. If the seemingly random strings of characters, or token, after the domain name (the “1f9lqAP” in bit.ly/1f9lqAP, for example) is too short, then someone with enough computing power can guess random strings and potentially stumble upon something you might have wanted to keep private.
Your Cell Phone GPS is Tracking Your Every Move
As you move around, and use your phone for various different purposes, you are creating a record of your usage and your location. This is captured in what is referred to as a “Call Detail Record” and would be received from the service provider in response to a subpoena. As your phone attaches and reattaches to different cell towers, it becomes possible to see in which direction your phone is traveling.
http://www.lawtechnologytoday.org/2016/03/cell-phone-gps-tracking-every-move/