Help Net Security: The Surveillance Economy Has Set Its Sights on Smartphone Sensors

Published by Mike Fong on April 12, 2019

The Internet of things (IoT) has given tech companies, advertisers, data brokers and others in the surveillance economy the ability to track not just the actions we take on our screens but the actions we take in our homes, including what we say and what we do. Now these companies are going a step further, turning their attention to extracting valuable data from the sensors within the smartphones we take with us everywhere we go.