Journalists in Europe found it was "easy" to spy on top European Union officials using commercially obtained location data ...

Alphabet Inc.’s Google is changing its Maps tool so that the company no longer has access to users' individual location histories, cutting off its ability to respond to law enforcement warrants that ...

Grindr's past willingness to share sensitive data may have been more problematic than previously thought. The Wall Street Journal understands precise Grindr user location data was collected from the ...

Google announced big changes to its most legally fraught set of user settings: your location data. Google’s misleading Location History descriptions in Google Maps have earned it several lawsuits in ...

The Department of Homeland Security has paid millions of dollars since 2017 to purchase, without warrants, cellphone location data from two companies to track the movements of both Americans and ...

AngelSense, an assistive technology company that provides location monitoring devices for people with disabilities, was spilling the personally identifiable information and precise location data of ...

Hackers have stolen a database that appears to include location data from tens of millions of devices. This location info seems to have originated from the ad-bidding process used by popular apps.

Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile are continuing their fight against fines for selling user location data, with two of the big three carriers submitting new court briefs arguing that the Federal ...

Some 250 years after the Sons of Liberty threw chests of tea into the Boston Harbor, the State of Massachusetts could be about to lead the nation in a different sort of revolution. Lawmakers in the ...

The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation has acknowledged for the first time that it purchased US location data rather than obtaining a warrant. While the practice of buying people’s location ...

Geoff Michener is the CEO of dataPlor, a startup focused on helping companies succeed abroad through high quality geospatial data. The conversation about data privacy in the location intelligence ...