September 03, 2019

FBI asks Google for help finding criminals

FBI agents issued Google with a warrant in November 2018, seeking its help with a bank robbery the month before.

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August 09, 2019

Instagram boots ad partner for location tracking and scraping stories

A “preferred Facebook Marketing Partner” is alleged to have tracked millions of Instagram users' locations and stories.

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August 09, 2019

Parents, it’s time to delete Pet Chat from your child’s LeapPad

LeapFrog has done lots to fix the security of the LeapPad. Now all that's left is for parents to scrape Pet Chat off of older tablets.

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July 25, 2019

New York City moves to protect citizens’ location data

New York City is considering a law that could stop cellphone carriers and smartphone app vendors from selling their location data.

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May 15, 2019

Twitter bug leaks iOS users’ location data to partner

Now fixed, the bug affected some users with multiple accounts running on an iOS device.

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May 03, 2019

Google rolling out auto-delete for your location and activity history

Auto-delete will hopefully please those of us who haven't already turned off location history altogether (for very good reason).

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April 29, 2019

Cops need warrant for both location history and phone pinging, says judge

It's one of the first location data privacy cases to grapple with the warrant and surveillance implications of the Carpenter decision.

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February 22, 2019

Facebook lets Android users block location tracking

Facebook announced it's tweaking its Android version, which was tracking your location even when the app wasn't in use.

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February 20, 2019

Facebook tracks users it thinks may harm its employees

Threat makers are sometimes geolocated to determine how credible their threats are, as in, are they near enough to really attack?

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