5G means you’ll have to say goodbye to your location privacy

guest · Mar 1, 2019

5G means you’ll have to say goodbye to your location privacy
March 1, 2019
https://www.fastcompany.com/90314058/5g-means-youll-have-to-say-goodbye-to-your-location-privacy

So how does this affect your location privacy?
Under 4G networks [...] your mobile provider could pinpoint your location within about a mile’s accuracy–so your location was pretty well obfuscated.

But since 5G towers will need to be everywhere and you’ll only connect to one 5G tower at a time, your mobile network will now be able to pinpoint your location much more accurately–even knowing which building you are in.
On top of this, as you move through a city, your mobile network provider will be able to chart the path you take with a high degree of accuracy since your device will keep jumping from connecting to one nearest 5G tower to the next.

Steve Bellovin, a professor of computer science at Columbia University, recently told the Wall Street Journal that 5G will raise privacy concerns when it comes to location data:

[...] Today’s towers have a radius of about a mile. If the new towers cover a much smaller area, it means that they know much more precisely where you are . . . You’re going to see a lot more indoor towers–in shopping malls, big office buildings, hotels and so on. So in that sense you are going to get far more precise.
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But unfortunately, if you want 5G service, there’s no way around giving up more of your location privacy. Welcome to the brave new world of 5G.
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reasonablePrivacy · Mar 1, 2019

You can always use VPN, Tor or maybe high-gain directional antenna.

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