Your smartphone location can be tracked – even if you’ve turned off the GPS
Religiously turning off location services may not save you from having your smartphone tracked: a group of IEEE researchers have […]
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Balancing the benefits of location data with privacy protection
Popular lifestyle and utility apps have long raised privacy concerns about their collection and use of personally identifiable information, but […]
Google faces probe for ‘violating’ location data privacy on Android devices
After Google reportedly confirmed the practice of gathering location data from Android devices even when the service was disabled by […]
Bringing Geolocation Into Focus
With another Thanksgiving and another Black Friday having come and gone the holiday shopping season is in full swing yet […]
What Anonymous Location Data Reveals About Us
Using code and the web, a data scientist follows two unnamed people and learns just how much our anonymous location […]
AccuWeather caught sending user location data, even when location sharing is off
A security researcher has found that the popular weather app sends private location data without the user’s explicit permission to […]
Blippar To Use Computer Vision To Improve Location Targeting
Engineers at augmented reality startup Blippar believe they have developed technology to improve marketing and ad campaigns by helping to […]
Even teenagers are creeped out by Snapchat’s new map feature
The real purpose of Snap Map may be to prove to your contacts that you are indeed social. Source: Even […]
Poland: Geolocation report shows GIODO “quite lenient on location data processing”
13 July 2017 The Inspector General for Personal Data Protection (GIODO) announced, on 5 July 2017, that it had presented […]
Recruiters Use ‘Geofencing’ To Target Potential Hires Where They Live And Work
Geofencing sets up virtual boundaries to enable tracking of mobile devices in an area. It can be used to send […]
Snapchat’s newest feature is also its biggest privacy threat
Recently Snapchat introduced Snap Map, an opt-in function that allows you to share your location with your friends on a […]