Collaborate Disseminate
Auto-delete will hopefully please those of us who haven’t already turned off location history altogether (for very good reason). Continue reading Google rolling out auto-delete for your location and activity history
The demands are the latest move to pressure telecom companies, who said they would stop the sale of location data to third parties after Motherboard’s coverage. Continue reading FCC Commissioner Demands Answers from AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon on Phone Location Data
After Motherboard’s investigation led to telcos stopping their sale of phone location data, apparent scammers are exploiting a void in the private investigator industry. Continue reading After Telcos Shut Off Bounty Hunters, Scammers Sell Fake ‘Phone Pings’
It’s one of the first location data privacy cases to grapple with the warrant and surveillance implications of the Carpenter decision. Continue reading Cops need warrant for both location history and phone pinging, says judge
This month, the Los Angeles Department for Transportation will enter the next phase of collecting the real-time location of scooters like Lime and Bird. Continue reading EFF Says LA’s Scooter Location Data Could Unmask Individual Riders
Uber, which is pushing back against the requests for real-time location data of its JUMP scooters, was granted a provisional, month-long permit, while other companies received a full-year license. Continue reading Scooter Companies Split on Giving Real-Time Location Data to Los Angeles
Facebook announced it’s tweaking its Android version, which was tracking your location even when the app wasn’t in use. Continue reading Facebook lets Android users block location tracking
Threat makers are sometimes geolocated to determine how credible their threats are, as in, are they near enough to really attack? Continue reading Facebook tracks users it thinks may harm its employees
A Motherboard investigation found that telecom companies are selling their customers’ “assisted GPS” data, which is intended for first responders answering 911 calls. Continue reading What A-GPS Data Is (and Why Wireless Carriers Most Definitely Shouldn’t Be Selling It)
Location data extracted from the athletic hitman’s Garmin GPS watch and TomTom sat nav led to his conviction in two gangland murders. Continue reading Bicycle-riding hitman convicted with Garmin GPS watch location data