geotracking

[jee-oh-trak-ing]

noun

1. the process or method of using GPS or a computer network to track the location and movements of a device or person.

adjective

1. used in the process of tracking the location and movements of a device or person by means of GPS.

Example Sentences

So Mr. Moskalyov slipped off his geotracking ankle bracelet and fled from house arrest.

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The movie “2000 Mules” was produced by conservative commentator Dinesh D’Souza who used purported “geotracking” data from cellphone apps to trace people or mules allegedly involved with stuffing ballot drop boxes in Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

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The film’s claims, based on cellphone geotracking data, have been rejected as unconvincing by technology experts.

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The research possibilities opened up by geotracking are “beyond my dreams”, says Walter Quattrociocchi, a data scientist at the Ca’Foscari University of Venice, Italy.

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Technologies such as geotracking are helping social scientists to trace the way people really behave, not just how they say they do.

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