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Tag Archives: location data
New York City moves to protect citizens’ location data
New York City is considering a law that could stop cellphone carriers and smartphone app vendors from selling their location data.
Twitter bug leaks to iOS users’ location data to partner
Now fixed, the bug affected some users with multiple accounts running on an iOS device.
Google rolling out auto-delete for your location and activity history
Auto-delete will hopefully please those of us who haven’t already turned off location history altogether (for very good reason).
Cops need warrant for both location history and phone pinging, says judge
It’s one of the first location data privacy cases to grapple with the warrant and surveillance implications of the Carpenter decision.
Facebook lets Android users block location tracking
Facebook announced it’s tweaking its Android version, which was tracking your location even when the app wasn’t in use.
Facebook tracks users it thinks may harm its employees
Threat makers are sometimes geolocated to determine how credible their threats are, as in, are they near enough to really attack?
Bicycle-riding hitman convicted with Garmin GPS watch location data
Location data extracted from the athletic hitman’s Garmin GPS watch and TomTom sat nav led to his conviction in two gangland murders.
Old tweets reveal hidden secrets
Old Twitter posts could reveal more about you than you think, according to researchers, even if you didn’t explicitly mention it.
LA sues The Weather Channel over selling users’ location data
The app is accused of being a “location data company powered by weather” and profiting from users’ data without being upfront about it.