January 22, 2019

Bicycle-riding hitman convicted with Garmin GPS watch location data

Location data extracted from the athletic hitman's Garmin GPS watch and TomTom sat nav led to his conviction in two gangland murders.

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January 11, 2019

Old tweets reveal hidden secrets

Old Twitter posts could reveal more about you than you think, according to researchers, even if you didn’t explicitly mention it.

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January 08, 2019

LA sues The Weather Channel over selling users’ location data

The app is accused of being a “location data company powered by weather” and profiting from users' data without being upfront about it.

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December 14, 2018

Facebook has filed patents to predict our future locations

One such use would be to pre-stuff our devices with ads and other content before we wander into a Wi-Fi dead zone.

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December 12, 2018

Phones are selling location data from “trusted” apps

Data brokers are tracking 200 million mobile devices in the US, updating locations up to 14,000 times a day, the New York Times has found.

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September 19, 2018

Years on, third party apps still exposing Grindr users’ locations

A third party app can use Grindr’s distance data to pinpoint a users location down to a room within a house.

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August 15, 2018

Google is tracking your location, even when the setting is turned off

Shock! It appears Google can track the location of anyone using some of its apps on Android or iPhone even when they’ve told it not to.

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August 13, 2018

Siri is listening to you, but she’s NOT spying, says Apple

Apple's working to keep iPhones from eavesdropping on us, through privacy policies, short buffer windows, local storage, and app review.

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July 11, 2018

Apple and Google questioned by Congress over user tracking

Inquiring lawmakers' minds want to know, for one thing, whether our mobile phones are actually listening to our conversations.

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