Tracking device in the Samsung Battery

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NFC chip is used to track and hack our personal data and things. Is that correct? Does anyone know anything about this?

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHwEUEnJH4E[/ame]

Why do someone remove this chip from Samsung battery?:dunno:
 
Well I use a non oem battery. Anyone actually get verification on this from credible source? It could also be an antenna signal booster/amplifier
 
The sticker having the coil on it like that shows it's meant to be powered by induction. So this is one of two things.

It's either for charging the phone inductively via a QI charger (I think this is most likely): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi_%28inductive_power_standard%29

Or it's the NFC chip (which I'd be surprised is on the battery, but it could be...). NFC is short range wireless also powered by induction. It's what makes tap to pay work.

Either way, cell phones have antennas in them that are constantly communicating with cell towers. They broadcast your phone's or GMS chip's unique ID when it communicates with those towers. That's how your carrier can identify you as making the call, and how it can send calls to the right phone, etc.

If someone wanted to track someone's phone, finding that ID then using a device that listens for cell phone chatter and records IDs would be how they'd do it. Not by sticking a short range inductive powered chip on a battery.

In short, the video is the result of paranoia and ignorance. The only way to be untrackable by a cell phone is to not carry one or pay cash for one of those throw aways or something... But if people who can track your cell phone are after you, they're watching you in other ways too.

And for a source, I give you snoops: http://m.snopes.com/samsung-microchip/ (they say it's the NFC chip, I'm still a bit surprised by that though, I'd really have assumed it was for inductive charging of the battery).
 
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