Hacker News with Generative AI: Tracking

Turning a Bluetooth device into an Apple AirTag without root privileges (nroottag.github.io)
A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to turn your device—whether it’s a desktop, smartphone, or smartwatch—into an AirTag-like tracker, enabling the attacker to track your location. How does it work? Over 1.5 billion iPhones could act as free tracking agents for the attacker worldwide.

Security, Privacy, Apple, Bluetooth, Tracking

504 points by layer8 9 days ago | 81 comments

Department of Government Efficiency Live Tracker (doge-tracker.com)

Government, Efficiency, Tracking, Data Visualization

10 points by wslh 30 days ago | 6 comments

POTUS Tracker – Executive Orders, Presidential Schedule, Signed Legislation (potustracker.us)
POTUS Tracker experienced significant downtime on 1/28 due to an overloaded server.

Politics, Government, Tracking, Data, US Government

60 points by voisin 39 days ago | 55 comments

Track your devices via Apple FindMy network in Go/TinyGo (github.com/hybridgroup)
Go Haystack lets you track personal Bluetooth devices via Apple's massive "Find My" network.

Bluetooth, Tracking, Apple, Open Source

361 points by deadprogram 57 days ago | 114 comments

Show HN: Never let friends forget who is the winner (shmelo.io)
A scoreboard for competitive games to track results, rankings, and winning streaks

Games, Competitive Gaming, Scoreboards, Friends, Tracking

5 points by itsikap 58 days ago | 5 comments

We know where your car is (DE) (spiegel.de)

Privacy, Germany, Automotive, Tracking

10 points by deanc 69 days ago | 3 comments

WordPress.com's owner launched a tracker for sites leaving WP Engine (theverge.com)
WordPress.com’s owner launched a tracker for sites leaving WP Engine.

WordPress, Web Hosting, Business, Tracking, Data

3 points by CRConrad 121 days ago | 0 comments

Tracker Beeper (2022) (berthub.eu)
A week ago, I finally got round to implementing an idea I’d been toying with for years: what if your computer made a little bit of noise every time it sent data to Google?

Privacy, Software, Google, Tracking

394 points by gaws 123 days ago | 77 comments

You can track changes someone makes to their Instagram account (github.com/ibnaleem)
📸 an Instagram tracker that logs any changes to an Instagram account (followers, following, posts, and bio)

Social Media, Tracking, Instagram, Data Analysis

8 points by hellowastaken 145 days ago | 4 comments

Automatic Content Recognition Tracking in Smart TVs (arxiv.org)

Smart TVs, Content Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Tracking

159 points by some_furry 163 days ago | 155 comments

Mozilla faces a privacy complaint over Firefox's tracking (engadget.com)
Mozilla is the latest company to get in trouble with the EU. Austrian advocacy group Noyb has filed a complaint against Mozilla for setting a Privacy Preserving Attribution (PPA) feature to default without informing its users. Noyb claims the setting impacts millions of Europeans.

Privacy, Mozilla, Firefox, Europe, Tracking

7 points by speckx 164 days ago | 0 comments

Firefox tracks you with “privacy preserving” feature (noyb.eu)
Today, noyb filed a complaint against Mozilla for quietly enabling a supposed “privacy feature” (called Privacy Preserving Attribution) in its Firefox browser. Contrary to its reassuring name, this technology allows Firefox to track user behaviour on websites. In essence, the browser is now controlling the tracking, rather than individual websites. While this might be an improvement compared to even more invasive cookie tracking, the company never asked its users if they wanted to enable it.

Privacy, Browsers, Mozilla, Tracking, User Consent

156 points by robin_reala 165 days ago | 130 comments

Show HN: Toolstash – Track your tool collection with AI (toolstash.com)

Tools, AI, Software, Tracking

17 points by Shpigford 219 days ago | 0 comments

Google Chrome Will Track You for the Next 200 Days–Then It May Get Worse (forbes.com)

Privacy, Google Chrome, Tracking, Surveillance

14 points by marban 265 days ago | 19 comments

Forget Copilot+, Windows is already tracking everything you do (xda-developers.com)