<story><title>Battery power alone can be used to track Android phones</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31587621</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>SifJar</author><text>The article mentions that the required permissions are &amp;quot;very common permissions&amp;quot;, and then in the next paragraph says that 179 apps on the Google Play store require those permissions. As of July 2014, there were 1.3 million apps in the app store [1]. That&amp;#x27;s ~0.014% of the apps on the store. Not exactly &amp;quot;very common&amp;quot; in my mind. Although the remark that they are &amp;quot;unlikely to raise suspicion&amp;quot; is valid, especially for the typical consumer, who probably isn&amp;#x27;t reading the permissions anyway.&lt;p&gt;[1] - &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Play#Android_applications&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Google_Play#Android_application...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Battery power alone can be used to track Android phones</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31587621</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joosters</author><text>Original research paper: &lt;a href=&quot;http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.03182&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;arxiv.org&amp;#x2F;abs&amp;#x2F;1502.03182&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;PDF link: &lt;a href=&quot;http://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.03182v1.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;arxiv.org&amp;#x2F;pdf&amp;#x2F;1502.03182v1.pdf&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>