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GPS

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22 articles accelerating

GPS has appeared in 22 articles since 2015-08. Coverage peaked in 2024Q2 with 2 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Android, Apple Watch, NFC.

Articles
22
mentions
Velocity
+100.0%
growth rate
Acceleration
+1.000
velocity change
Sources
15
publications

Coverage Timeline

2020-03-25
Washington Post 2 related

Unacast, an analytics company using location data from a variety of apps, debuts a Social Distancing Scoreboard to grade how US citizens are adapting by region

or not. Data from tens of millions of smartphones grades counties & states by how much people are staying put. Washington, DC gets an A Wyoming gets an F See your county https://www.washingtonpost.com...

2019-01-11
Wired

Researchers develop tool that can predict where Twitter users live with 92.5% accuracy using GPS data from geotagged tweets posted prior to April 2015

Issie Lapowsky / Wired : Tweets: @issielapowsky , @issielapowsky , @wired , and @alexwhitcomb Tweets: Issie Lapowsky / @issielapowsky : Twitter changed its policy in 2015 but all the GPS data from be...

2018-09-08
TechCrunch 9 related

Researchers find 24 popular iOS apps that sent sensitive user data like GPS, Bluetooth LE Beacon, and Wi-Fi network identifiers to data monetization firms

A group of security researchers say dozens of popular iPhone apps are quietly sharing the location data of “tens of millions of mobile devices” …

2018-05-13
Motherboard

Hacker says he stole data from ZooPark hacking group, some say an Iran-linked APT, which ran a hacking campaign targeting Android devices across the Middle East

Joseph Cox / Motherboard : Tweets: @chrisrohlf , @josephfcox , @josephfcox , @lorenzofb , and @josephfcox Tweets: Chris Rohlf / @chrisrohlf : There was a time when you could just look at exploit code...

2018-05-12
Motherboard

Hacker claims he stole data from ZooPark hacking group, some say an Iran-linked APT, which ran a hacking campaign towards Android devices across the Middle East

Earlier this month, Kaspersky published research on the so-called ZooPark group, which ran a hacking campaign towards Android devices across the Middle East. Tweets: @josephfcox , @josephfcox , @loren...

2017-10-24
Quartz

GPS, used both for tracking location and tracking time, by global finance, telco, and transport networks, is vulnerable to jamming and spoofing

Tim Fernholz / Quartz :

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Quarterly Coverage

Top Sources

Narrative

GPS has appeared in 149 Techmeme articles since December 2014. The biggest stories include Viral selfie app Meitu requests permissions like GPS, call, and carrier info that are... and KGI: Apple Watch 2 coming later this year with GPS, barometer, similar form factor,.... Frequently covered alongside Samsung, Apple, Fitbit, Google, and Apple Watch. Coverage has shifted toward funding, developer themes and away from research, enterprise.

Key Moments

2024Q4enterprise +100pts; research -100pts
2025Q1enterprise -100pts; safety +25pts
2025Q4enterprise +50pts; safety -25pts; consumer +100pts

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