Tucson cops cracked a cigarette case using a tool tracking 500M phones

The ads on your phone aren't just selling you sneakers. They're a feed for anyone with a budget. Tucson cops wanted to nail a suspected cigarette-store thief who had been hitting the same chain. So they pulled up the location pings of every phone near each robbery, noticed one device that kept showing up, and followed it home. — Read the rest The post Tucson cops cracked a cigarette case using a tool tracking 500M phones appeared first on Boing Boing.