Beware, Android Phone Could Spy Your Location

CALIFORNIA - Research conducted by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) points out, the Android smartphone can be used to spy tools. The green robot OS smartphone can tell the location of the user to others who are still in the range of WiFi.

Research company based in the United States is found, the WiFi was at the airport, cafe or companies can proclaim the existence of user information to someone who is within range of a WiFi area. In fact, when the display device is in the off position.

Reported Tomsguide, some smartphone that runs on Android version 3.1 (Honeycomb) or newer version broadcast WiFi network name of the last 15, which is connected to the device. Google is working to fix this problem.

Claimed to be a serious problem if the WiFi networks reveal the name, so anyone who is within range of a WiFi could find the name or the user's work. One can also find be some public places such as schools last visited, restaurants, airports, doctors' offices and others.

EFF wrote in his blog, this feature appears as part of the Android version 3.1. This feature displays reportedly Called Preferred Network Offload (PNO) which is designed to help smartphone connected to a WiFi network, even though smartphones are in low-power mode.

EFF also tested the iOS device and did not find a similar problem on the version of IOS and IOS 6 7 However, some versions of the iPad that runs on iOS 5 are experiencing similar problems, such as the Android 3.1.