GPS/Location Awareness

Overview: Follow the below links for additional resources on GPS/Location Awareness Crimes. These resources are available both on Futurecrimes.com as well as on select external sites. The following links provide an excellent resource guide and foundation on the latest Future Crimes trends.

Latest Articles on GPS/Location Awareness

• Unlawful Assembly in Virtual Spaces Now Also Illegal
• Hacking GPS and Satellite Navigation: Potential Criminal Payoffs
• Stolen GPS Devices Lead Criminals Back to Empty Homes
• Mobile Phone Applications to Fight Crime & Disorder
• We *could* find your stolen Kindle, satellite radio and iPod…but we won’t!

External Resources:

• Documents
  • GPS Forensics, Crime, and Jamming by Professor David Last published in GPS World.
  • Global Navigation Satellite Systems – Part 1: The Present Imperfect by Professor David Last.
  • On Location Privacy, and How to Avoid Losing it Forever by Andrew J. Blumberg and Peter Eckersley for EFF.org.
  • Low Cost Portable GPS Jammer by an Anonymous Author for Phrack Magazine.
  • Geoslavery by J.E. Dobson and P.F. Fisher for IEEE Technology and Society Magazine. It discusses the possibilities for misuse of location information.
• Newslinks
• Organizations
• Educational
  • Location Aware Mobile Devices on Wikipedia
  • Location Based Services on Wikipedia
  • The Increasing Threat to GNSS by Professor David Last.
  • GPS.gov is a general public education website created by the U.S. Government.
  • International Committee on GNSS which is part of the UN Office of Outer Space Affairs.
• Law Enforcement
  • Please Rob Me is a website that uses Twitter’s search functionality to show location-based messages. Their goal is to raise awareness about potential risks of location-awareness and over-sharing.
  • GPS and Law Enforcement by Professor David Last.
• Miscellaneous
  • Foursquare and Gowalla are location-based social networking services.
  • GPS World magazine covering GNSS news for industry professionals.
  • Inside GNSS. Engineering Solutions from the Global Navigation Satellite System Community.