Researchers: A smartphone's battery drain can give away its location

Researchers have found another tool that could be exploited to snoop on consumers: batteries. A new report claims that the rate at which a smartphone drains its battery could let hackers, advertisers, and others determine its general location through machine learning techniques. By default, Android provides information about the battery to every application installed on a device, which means this method of location-tracking could affect many millions of people. (The research was […]