location tracking

It’s no secret that Google, as well as other big tech companies, know a lot about you. Probably a lot more than you…

It can be hard to resist the impulse of sharing your fitness progress on social media. Who can say no to the…

How much surveillance do we need to stop a pandemic? As the novel coronavirus spreads, testing and health system…

Google has informed developers that it’s about to enforce new restrictions on Android apps that unnecessarily track…

How phones track location is changing – if you’ve upgraded to the latest Android 10 or iOS 13 updates, you may have…

Tinder today has announced it’s rolling out new features to help better protect users both on and off the platform,…

New York Times reporters working on an investigation into the sprawling location data business—in which the paper…

Update 12/5/19: Apple has finally explained that this is part of an on-device process used for regulatory compliance…

With the arrival of iOS 13 and Android 10, Facebook is preemptively warning users that location settings are about…

When it comes to getting a customer service issue resolved as quickly as possible, publicly tweeting at a company…

Knowing that our apps gather boatloads of information about us—some for years—can be unsettling. Google’s various…

Facebook wields unparalleled power when it comes to the amount of data it collects on its billions of users—this we…

More than a couple weather apps have recently come under fire for their handling of user data, either by collecting…

The holidays are nigh, and this year’s naughty list is long indeed—and from revelations of reckless privacy…

Courtesy of the New York Times, we just got another reminder of how invasive location tracking through apps can…

While you probably already know enabling location services for third-party apps might compromise your privacy, an…

Facebook could soon start gathering location information from users’ Instagram accounts, if it implements a feature…

As the recent revelation over Google’s background tracking of your location shows, it’s not as easy as it should be…

Last week, a report revealed that Google continues to collect location data from users even when “Location History”…

In the latest incident of seemingly innocuous data sharing leading to potentially dangerous exposure, the popular…