A troubling flaw in phone tracking company LocationSmart’s demo tool, used to advertise its services, let anyone take advantage of an easily exploited flaw to track phones from America’s top four carriers without the user’s consent or knowledge, according to KrebsOnSecurity. The demo site was reportedly taken down…
A case in which a Missouri sheriff is accused of illegally tracking citizen’s cellphone location for personal reasons is putting the spotlight on a little-known service that allows police to gain people’s location data with little oversight. The complex scheme involves the practices of telemarketers, inmate call…
At a time when every tech company is desperate to avoid news that third-parties got their hands on user data without their knowledge, Apple is reportedly cracking down on app developers who’ve been transmitting users’ locations without their consent. The practice has long been part of Apple’s guidelines, but…
While Samsung is dominant in the chip and Android smartphone game, it’s lagged behind in the social networking world. But based on a trademark application filed in the EU, it looks like Samsung could be working on some sort of location-focused messaging app—called “Uhssup.”
On Wednesday, the United States Supreme Court began hearings on a case that has the potential to be the most important privacy decision in recent memory. At its heart, it’s about the government’s right to use cellphone data to track a person’s past locations without a warrant. More broadly, it’s about updating the way…
Tech companies like Google and Facebook provide services in exchange for your data. We’ve known this. But they’ve always stood by the reasoning that it’s nothing to worry about because you’re given a choice. Sometimes the choice is agreeing to a terms of service. With location tracking, Google has always made it…
Any kind of individual geotracking may sound unnerving at first, but if you can control who is able to see your location and when, it can be a convenient way of keeping an eye on the kids, making sure everyone meets at the same bar, or working out how long it’ll be before your better half gets home from work. Here are…
TruePosition is a ghost. Few know anything substantive about the surveillance company, yet according to Wired's Spencer Ackerman, governments are salivating over the company's LOCINT product, which has the ability to drudge up plenty personal info through our cellphones.
Although Apple's fixed the location tracking problem, their Q&A explanation of the issue was defensive and baffling. Yesterday, before a Senate hearing on privacy and location tracking, Apple showed that they're still talking out of both sides of their EULA.
The last iOS bump chopped the location tracking cache, but Apple software wiz Bud Tribble just testified before Congress saying the next update will encrypt the cache entirely. So, presumably, no more potential 3rd party poking around in your whereabouts.
Representatives from Apple and Google got some splainin' to do, appearing before the Senate Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law. If you want to watch it live, the Sunlight Foundation's got a great annotated stream. Democracy! [Sunlight Foundation]
Apple has said they were going to release a 'fix' for the location tracking 'bug,' and now Boy Genius Reportoffers up some more evidence in support of that, saying iOS 4.3.3 is coming in the next two weeks. [BGR]
In yet another frightening instance of China manipulating technology for their purpose, China is looking to track 17 million Chinese citizens by tapping into their cell phone's location. The 'research', as China would like their people to think of it, is part of an initiative to improve Beijing's public transportation…
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals just decided that it was legal for the police to put a GPS tracking device on your car, sitting in your driveway, on your property. Here's how to protect yourself.
