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How to find your current location in Google Maps
Google Maps is great for getting directions to far off cities and obscure shopping plazas. But what…
BI India Bureau
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US lawmakers are investigating a company that sells people's phone location data to the FBI
The company Venntel aggregates location data from smartphone apps including games and weather apps.…
Aaron Holmes
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Popular safety app Life360 is reportedly selling the precise location data of millions of kids and their families
Life360, the family safety app in the process of acquiring Tile, is selling raw location data from …
Hannah Towey
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The US military reportedly bought location data mined from a popular Muslim prayer app to track users for 'counterterrorism'
Muslim Pro is one of hundreds of apps that make money by selling users' location data to third-part…
Aaron Holmes
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CBP just paid $476K for people's phone location data from a company that's under investigation for selling personal data
Law enforcement agencies like the FBI and ICE are increasingly using phone location data to track p…
Aaron Holmes
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Hundreds of thousands of bikers converged at the massive Sturgis Rally, one of the biggest gatherings during the pandemic. Mapping their phone data shows where they traveled across the US.
Over the past week, there has been an average of 100 new COVID-19 cases per day in South Dakota, a …
Aaron Holmes
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Phone location data shows millions of Americans have already started leaving home and traveling more in the past week
Location analytics firm Cuebiq compiled location data from millions of people's devices to create a…
Aaron Holmes
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A new lawsuit accuses Google of sneakily tricking people into letting it track their location data
Four US attorneys general have accused the firm of deceiving consumers into letting it track where …
Katie Canales
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How to stop Google from tracking your Android's location
You can stop Google from tracking your Android device by disabling Google's "Location History" opti…
Dave Johnson
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'Apple is eating our lunch': Google employees admit in lawsuit that the company made it nearly impossible for users to keep their location private
Google misled phone makers into hiding privacy settings users liked in order to collect more locati…
Tyler Sonnemaker
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Democrat senators led by Elizabeth Warren want to ban brokers from trading people's health and location data
There are concerns vigilantes could use location data to track people seeking abortions if Roe v. W…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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This misconception about location data accuracy is costing you
The quality of GPS data, for example, can dramatically degrade indoors. While cell triangulation da…
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That Location Data You're Relying On Is Probably Wrong
Demand for location-based campaigns is rising fast, and Thinknear's Location Score Index will be in…
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Apple and Google have reportedly banned a major data broker from collecting location data from users' phones amid scrutiny over its national security work
The platforms banned developers from using X-Mode's tracking software as congressional investigator…
Tyler Sonnemaker
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How to stop Google from tracking your iPhone's location
You can stop Google from tracking your iPhone by disabling the "Location History" option in your ac…
Dave Johnson
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Every state has started to reopen, but smartphone data suggests people are still reluctant to go out
According to data from Apple, which compiles mobility trends using anonymized GPS data from people'…
Aaron Holmes
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Experts explain the legal and moral pitfalls in Aarogya Setu app — despite the government’s insistence that a protocol has been put in place
India’s IT Ministry has passed an order to lay down the protocol for data collection in the Aarogya…
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Google’s covert location tracking apparently costs users 1GB of data per month
It’s only once the phone is switched off that Google stops tracking the device, according to e…
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Arizona sues Google over claims it illegally collected location data from smartphone users even after they opted out
The state said Google violated users' privacy by tracking their location even when they had turned …