For many years, the use of location data emanating from our mobile devices has been viewed in the context of privacy and civil liberties trade-offs. Many people have agreed to trade data showing where ...

Of all of the recent technological developments that have expanded the surveillance capabilities of law enforcement agencies at the expense of individual privacy, perhaps the most powerful is cell ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is tracking the approximate locations of cell phone users in West Africa who dial emergency call centers in an effort to predict the onset and spread of ...

The Federal Trade Commission sued an app analytics company on Monday for selling cell phone location data that the agency said could be used to track people to sensitive locations like abortion ...

Verizon will end the practice of selling cell phone location data to third-party brokers, which has allowed outside companies to pinpoint the location of wireless devices without their owners’ ...

There are hundreds of phone tracker apps on the internet, with millions of users all across the globe. Still, cell phone tracking is a little bit of a sensitive subject. Some believe it is a breach of ...

Getting lost indoors can be frustrating. Whether it’s finding your gate at an airport or navigating a large shopping mall, the struggle is real. Businesses and institutions face challenges in making ...

Alfred Ng was a senior reporter for CNET News. He was raised in Brooklyn and previously worked on the New York Daily News's social media and breaking news teams. Imagine if someone offered to pay less ...

Despite the UC&C industry’s inability to move beyond simple standalone Wi-Fi location offerings, when I thought about what I wanted to write in this month’s post, location came to mind. Particularly, ...

In March 2020, federal officials declared the COVID-19 outbreak a national emergency. Around the same time, most states implemented stay-at-home advisories - to different degrees and at different ...