Facebook has filed patents to predict our future locations
Facebook filed a patent, titled “Offline Trajectories,” last week in which it proposes predicting users’ “location trajectories” …
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Phones are selling location data from “trusted” apps
A New York Times investigation has found that apps such as GasBuddy and The Weather Channel are among at least 75 companies getting …
Google’s “deceitful” location tracking is against the law, say 7 EU groups
The row over Google’s location tracking has spread to Europe. Consumer organizations from across the region said this week that they will …
Google and Facebook accused of secretly tracking users’ locations
Google and Facebook have been hit separately by class action lawsuits accusing the companies of secretly tracking users’ locations, even …
Instagram tests sharing your location history with Facebook
For those Facebook users who still cling to the notion that they can limit Facebook’s tracking of our lives like it’s an electronic …
Google Hit With Lawsuit Over Location Tracking
A lawsuit accuses Google of “the surreptitious location tracking of millions of mobile phone users via its Android mobile operating system …
Google Sued Over Misleading Users About Location Tracking Feature
Google was in the news last week for a misleading claim that “with Location History off, the places you go are no longer stored,” which is …
Google is tracking your location, even when the setting is turned off
Shock horror – it appears Google can track the location of anyone using some of its apps on Android or iPhone even when they’ve told it …
Google Tracks iPhone and Android Users Location Data Even If Location History Turned Off
Google tracks your location even if you have the Location History turned off on your mobile devices. Generally, Google asks permission to …
Turning off Location History doesn’t prevent Google from knowing your location
If you believe that by turning off Location History on your Android device or iPhone means that Google won’t be able to know your …
Pausing ‘Location history’ doesn’t stop Google tracking your location. Here’s how to stop it
You would think that telling Google that you didn’t want your location be tracked by disabling an option called “Location History” …
Pausing Google ‘Location history’ doesn’t stop your location data from being collected and stored
You would think that telling Google that you didn’t want your location be tracked by disabling an option called “Location History” …
Trackmageddon: Flaws in hundreds of GPS services risk exposing millions of devices’ data to hackers
Security vulnerabilities in hundreds of GPS tracking services have been discovered by security experts, that could risk the exposure of …
The Google tracking feature you didn’t know you’d switched on
It’s National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM) and this week’s theme is simple steps to online safety. Here’s a simple step for you: see if you have Google’s Your Timeline turned on and, if…
News in brief: Turing’s documents found; Uber steps back on tracking; feathered threat to police
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news Alan Turing’s documents uncovered A collection of letters from Alan Turing, one of the founding fathers of modern…
Uber to end controversial post-trip tracking as part of privacy drive
Uber is set to reverse a controversial decision to collect users’ location information after their trip ends, Reuters reports, with the privacy u-turn coming first to the iPhone app — expected…
Facebook is making its Safety Check feature permanent
Facebook Safety Check, the tool that lets users tell friends if they’re OK when disaster strikes, has earned itself a permanent home. Facebook announced on Monday that starting now and…
Illinois poised to ban geolocation tracking without consent
The US state of Illinois is poised to pass a law that makes it illegal to track a phone’s location without the owner’s consent. The law, the Geolocation Privacy Protection…